{"id":8559,"date":"2015-05-22T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"e-martin-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/e-martin-pedersen\/","title":{"rendered":"E. Martin Pedersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>in Candyland<br \/>\nwhere everything\u2019s candy<br \/>\nthe winners get vegetables<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>at the politician\u2019s funeral<br \/>\nyou had to push your way in<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>your delicious perfume<br \/>\ngave me a migraine<br \/>\nthat never ended<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>all my adult life<br \/>\nI have waited for the word:<br \/>\nmalignant<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>watermelons and onions\u2014<br \/>\na feast that keeps on feasting<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>how sorry how sorry<br \/>\nis the hiker<br \/>\nwho set the forest ablaze?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>E. Martin Pedersen<\/strong>, originally from San Francisco, has lived in eastern Sicily for several decades. Some of his publication news can be found on his blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/emartinpedersenwriter.blogspot.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/emartinpedersenwriter.blogspot.it\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * in Candyland where everything\u2019s candy the winners get vegetables * at the politician\u2019s funeral you had to push your way in * your delicious perfume gave me a migraine that never ended * all my adult life I have waited for the word: malignant * watermelons and onions\u2014 a feast that [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","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=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24019,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/24019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}