{"id":8133,"date":"2015-02-08T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:12:28","slug":"jessica-schouela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jessica-schouela\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Schouela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Collie I Never Had<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to adopt a collie<br \/>\nand I didn\u2019t copy that from that<br \/>\nfrom anywhere<\/p>\n<p>I swear<br \/>\nmy mother always said<br \/>\nif we got a dog<\/p>\n<p>it would have to be a collie<\/p>\n<p>which never happened<br \/>\nbecause of all the shedding<br \/>\nwe predicted<\/p>\n<p>we got a shih tzu<br \/>\nand dad called him<\/p>\n<p>the emperor\u2019s dog.<\/p>\n<p>I plagiarized a lot as a child<br \/>\nespecially Roald Dahl<\/p>\n<p>but my teachers never noticed<br \/>\nif they did they didn\u2019t tell me<\/p>\n<p>which maybe is bad<\/p>\n<p>I was never sure if this made me happy<br \/>\nor if I was disappointed with them<br \/>\nfor being my teachers<\/p>\n<p>and not knowing<br \/>\nthe tricks of an eight year old:<\/p>\n<p>either way I think<br \/>\nI\u2019d wished they were<br \/>\nbetter (readers).<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Schouela<\/strong> originally from Montreal, Canada and is currently pursuing her masters at University College London in History of Art in London, England. Her aim is to move to Edinburgh and work with artist residency programs in the Highlands in order to explore the ways in which contemporary art can be made and exhibited in remote places, outside cultural hubs. <a href=\"http:\/\/cabbagemoths.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cabbagemoths.blogspot.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Collie I Never Had I wanted to adopt a collie and I didn\u2019t copy that from that from anywhere I swear my mother always said if we got a dog it would have to be a collie which never happened because of all the shedding we predicted we got a shih [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}