{"id":8393,"date":"2015-04-10T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:37:40","slug":"donal-mahoney-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/donal-mahoney-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Donal Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agnostic Afloat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You were a good boy,<br \/>\nfollowing your parents&#8217; advice,<br \/>\nnever going out in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>At the sound of rain<br \/>\nyou dove under the bed,<br \/>\nbawled and shouted,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome out, come out<br \/>\nwherever you are&#8221;<br \/>\nbut no one came out,<br \/>\nnot even you.<\/p>\n<p>When your parents died<br \/>\nyour uncle gave you<br \/>\nboots and a bumbershoot<br \/>\nand out you went<br \/>\nwhatever the weather.<\/p>\n<p>The rain in Spring you found<br \/>\na wonderful thing and not<br \/>\nso bad in Summer either<br \/>\nuntil the flood roared in<br \/>\nand you floated away.<\/p>\n<p>Noah and his ark sailed by,<br \/>\nNoah on deck<br \/>\nbetween two giraffes<br \/>\nsmiling and shouting,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome out, come out<br \/>\nwherever you are&#8221;<br \/>\nbut no one came out,<br \/>\nnot even you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, <strong>Donal Mahoney<\/strong> has had work published in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his earliest work can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/booksonblog12.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/booksonblog12.blogspot.com\/.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Agnostic Afloat You were a good boy, following your parents&#8217; advice, never going out in the rain. At the sound of rain you dove under the bed, bawled and shouted, \u201cCome out, come out wherever you are&#8221; but no one came out, not even you. When your parents died your uncle gave [&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-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","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=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}