{"id":845,"date":"2010-10-11T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=845"},"modified":"2010-10-11T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:42:36","slug":"joanna-weston-remembers-the-taste-of-a-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joanna-weston-remembers-the-taste-of-a-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Weston remembers the taste of a stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THE TASTE OF A STAMP<\/span><\/p>\n<p>waiting at an airport<br \/>for a friend\u2019s arrival<br \/>I lean over a postcard<br \/>at a caf\u00e9 table<br \/>and write \u2018Happy birthday\u2019<\/p>\n<p>the taste of the stamp<br \/>the pressure of my thumb<br \/>on fixing a small coloured rectangle<br \/>these are more vivid<br \/>than this morning\u2019s coffee<\/p>\n<p>the moment is a sphere<br \/>wholly complete<br \/>while an overcoated man<br \/>at the next table<br \/>spreads butter on toast<br \/>the smell as rich and sweet<br \/>as machine oil<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Joanna M. Weston<\/span> has had poetry published for 25 years, including the book <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Summer Father<\/span> (2006, Frontenac House, Calgary. ISBN: 1-89718105-1, $15.95)<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE TASTE OF A STAMP waiting at an airportfor a friend\u2019s arrivalI lean over a postcardat a caf\u00e9 tableand write \u2018Happy birthday\u2019 the taste of the stampthe pressure of my thumbon fixing a small coloured rectanglethese are more vividthan this morning\u2019s coffee the moment is a spherewholly completewhile an overcoated manat the next tablespreads butter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}