{"id":8140,"date":"2015-02-10T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:21:40","slug":"jyothsnaphanija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jyothsnaphanija\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyothsnaphanija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>The Milky way\u2019s Horoscope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A milky way, curious of her day\u2019s horoscope,<br \/>\nReads astrology headlines.<br \/>\nPuzzled, she lights a sacred camphor lamp<br \/>\nReads again.<\/p>\n<p>Still unsatisfied, she sprinkles some leafs and flowers along the silvery river<br \/>\nAnd returns to the news paper.<br \/>\nMuch determined than earlier, she fasts till night,<br \/>\nOffers cow milk, fire and turmeric stones.<\/p>\n<p>Then finds her horoscope in a new version.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the date that was missing, she sighs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Jyothsnaphanija<\/strong> is a PhD research scholar in English literature at EFL University, Hyderabad, India.\u00a0 Her poetry has appeared in <em>IthacaLit, Melusine, The Nervous Breakdown, Muddy River Poetry Review<\/em> and others. Her short stories have appeared in<em> eFiction India, Thickjam<\/em>, research articles in <em>Subalternspeak, eDhvani, Wizcraft, Barnolip<\/em>i and in several books. She blogs at <a href=\"https:\/\/phanija.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">phanija.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Milky way\u2019s Horoscope A milky way, curious of her day\u2019s horoscope, Reads astrology headlines. Puzzled, she lights a sacred camphor lamp Reads again. Still unsatisfied, she sprinkles some leafs and flowers along the silvery river And returns to the news paper. Much determined than earlier, she fasts till night, Offers cow milk, fire [&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-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}