{"id":88,"date":"2012-02-25T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-02-25T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T13:44:05","slug":"tom-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tom-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Holy Ghost <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know;<br \/>Christ had thorns stuck in his head,<br \/>God Almighty was in everything,<br \/>even Goblin pies I hated.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Ghost a mystery<br \/>until he came:<br \/>burning coals,<br \/>shuggy-boating above my bed,<br \/>placing his blood into me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Smile<\/span><br \/><font size=\"1\">(For Father Conlin)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Our priest was a saint,<br \/>who else would wear suede boots<br \/>turned-up at the toes?<\/p>\n<p>You could taste his prayers;<br \/>he bowed to the cross<br \/>in the presbytery<br \/>with no-one there.<\/p>\n<p>His beatific smile,<br \/>like Jimmy Stewart<br \/>at the end of,&nbsp; \u2018It\u2019s A Wonderful Life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomkelly.org.uk\/\"><br \/>Tom Kelly<\/a> is a Jarrow-born poet and playwright who now lives further up the Tyne at Blaydon. \u2018<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Time Office: New and Selected Poems<\/span> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsquirrelpress.com\/index.php?home\">Red Squirrel<\/a> is launched this month.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Ghost I didn\u2019t know;Christ had thorns stuck in his head,God Almighty was in everything,even Goblin pies I hated. The Holy Ghost a mysteryuntil he came:burning coals,shuggy-boating above my bed,placing his blood into me. Smile(For Father Conlin) Our priest was a saint,who else would wear suede bootsturned-up at the toes? You could taste his [&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-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}