{"id":8441,"date":"2015-04-25T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:38:09","slug":"bethany-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bethany-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Without Goodbyes<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(for Karen)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An eternal white corridor;<br \/>\nmy mother retreating,<br \/>\nleaving me with a too-large bed<br \/>\nwith medical-mint bed-spread.<\/p>\n<p>She blurs to a Lowry figure.<br \/>\nThe corridor cuts and incises<br \/>\nthen magnifies her stiletto sounds<br \/>\nto a music I still hear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethany Rivers<\/strong> has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Cardiff University.\u00a0 She has previously been published by Cinnamon Press, Bare Fiction and Scintilla (USA).\u00a0 She is currently working on her first full collection of poetry, and teaches creative writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Without Goodbyes (for Karen) An eternal white corridor; my mother retreating, leaving me with a too-large bed with medical-mint bed-spread. She blurs to a Lowry figure. The corridor cuts and incises then magnifies her stiletto sounds to a music I still hear. &nbsp; &nbsp; Bethany Rivers has an M.A. in Creative Writing [&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-8441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441","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=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}