{"id":9089,"date":"2015-08-31T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:55:31","slug":"9089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/9089\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara O\u2019Donnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Itch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stacks of National Geographics<\/p>\n<p>filled the wardrobe to my waist.<\/p>\n<p>The dust inviting sneezes.<\/p>\n<p>Misaligned yellow spines.<\/p>\n<p>Careless visitors would toss<\/p>\n<p>them back any old way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My fingers would itch<\/p>\n<p>to restore their rightful order.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the itch, manifest many ways.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent chafe of rashes,<\/p>\n<p>result of childhood curiosities.<\/p>\n<p>The itch where my wings should be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> was born in West Cork in 1975, and currently resides in London.\u00a0 She works at a major London teaching hospital and writes in her spare time. Her blog can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/barbaraodonnell.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">barbaraodonnell.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Itch &nbsp; Stacks of National Geographics filled the wardrobe to my waist. The dust inviting sneezes. Misaligned yellow spines. Careless visitors would toss them back any old way. &nbsp; My fingers would itch to restore their rightful order. Oh the itch, manifest many ways. Persistent chafe of rashes, result of childhood curiosities. [&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":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","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=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23782,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/23782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}