{"id":9144,"date":"2015-09-03T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T09:09:12","slug":"nisha-bhakoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/nisha-bhakoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nisha Bhakoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clown and gold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She ate lemons to prove a point.<\/p>\n<p>The blast of pennies dragged her forward.<\/p>\n<p>To keep fish in the sink without a heart.<\/p>\n<p>The weight of light outshined itself.<\/p>\n<p>Forward to the creases under the eyes:<\/p>\n<p>sardine, trout, clown and gold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nisha Bhakoo<\/strong> completed a MA in Critical and Creative Writing at Sussex University in 2011, and has recently been shortlisted for Cambridge University\u2019s Jane Martin Poetry Prize 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Clown and gold &nbsp; She ate lemons to prove a point. The blast of pennies dragged her forward. To keep fish in the sink without a heart. The weight of light outshined itself. Forward to the creases under the eyes: sardine, trout, clown and gold. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Nisha Bhakoo completed a MA [&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-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}