{"id":8800,"date":"2015-07-07T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:11:37","slug":"lisa-oliver-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lisa-oliver-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bite Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is stuff<br \/>\nIt can be very convincing<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to swoon<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to be charmed<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m a cynical bastard<br \/>\nAnd have seen too many<br \/>\nAttempt to distance themselves<br \/>\nWith it all amounting<br \/>\nTo nothingness<\/p>\n<p>They need to justify their existence<br \/>\nA reminder, not a copy<br \/>\nThis is a good sign<br \/>\nSpeak of life lived<br \/>\nOf depth and power<br \/>\nDeep knowledge has been brought<br \/>\nTo bear textured dark heat<br \/>\nIt has given of itself<br \/>\nMy duller self will settle<br \/>\nAnd be very happy indeed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Oliver<\/strong> is a writer and tutor based in Cheshire.\u00a0 She has an MA in Creative Writing from Keele University where she specialised in prose fiction. Lisa graduated with a new-found love and respect for poetry and enjoys finding poetry in the everyday, the weird and the wonderful. <a href=\"https:\/\/lisajoliver.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lisajoliver.wordpress.com\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>* found poem from The Observer magazine, &#8216;Big Easy&#8217; restaurant review by Jay Rayner, May 11th 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\" found poem from The Observer magazine, 'Big Easy' restaurant review by Jay Rayner, May 11th 2014 http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/may\/11\/big-easy-power-station-covent-garden-restaurant-review-jay-rayner \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/may\/11\/big-easy-power-station-covent-garden-restaurant-review-jay-rayner <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bite Me There is stuff It can be very convincing It&#8217;s easy to swoon It&#8217;s easy to be charmed But I&#8217;m a cynical bastard And have seen too many Attempt to distance themselves With it all amounting To nothingness They need to justify their existence A reminder, not a copy This is [&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-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}