{"id":9290,"date":"2015-11-01T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2015-09-29T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:56:41","slug":"rab-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rab-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rab Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calm<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00ad<br \/>\nthe top right of the moon is missing<br \/>\nno light<br \/>\nexists between here and there<br \/>\nnot in the long divide<br \/>\nthe absence<br \/>\nthe gaps between stars<br \/>\nthe billion mile emptiness<br \/>\nbetween match-head flickers<\/p>\n<p>and inside me I feel space between atoms<br \/>\nthe infinities<br \/>\nthere is a stillness here<br \/>\nin the expanse<br \/>\ninside of me<br \/>\nthere is a silence here\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rab Ferguson<\/strong> is a York based writer of poetry and fiction. He is published in several journals including <em>Litro Magazine, The Cadaverine, Voice In, Storgy and Pastiche<\/em>. For links to his work, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/rabtales.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">rabtales.wordpress.com<\/a>, or follow his twitter @rabtales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Calm \u00ad the top right of the moon is missing no light exists between here and there not in the long divide the absence the gaps between stars the billion mile emptiness between match-head flickers and inside me I feel space between atoms the infinities there is a stillness here in the [&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-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","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=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}