{"id":9343,"date":"2015-10-20T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2015-09-23T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T09:55:39","slug":"bud-faust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bud-faust\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Faust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drinking electricity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next door,<br \/>\nthe light from a television<br \/>\nthrough the window,<br \/>\nalways the light<br \/>\nfrom a television<br \/>\nand nothing more,<br \/>\nno sign of anything that<br \/>\nisn\u2019t drinking electricity<br \/>\nor running on battery acid<br \/>\nand brake fluid,<br \/>\nno sign of the<br \/>\ngood earth stuff,<br \/>\nno sign that anyone is<br \/>\never one step closer<br \/>\nto heaven,<br \/>\nno sign<br \/>\nthat any of us<br \/>\nshould expect<br \/>\nanything approaching more,<br \/>\nnot anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>You can have this one<br \/>\nfor free,<br \/>\non the house,<br \/>\nthe one that\u2019s glowing blue,<br \/>\nspitting in the face<br \/>\nof an otherwise<br \/>\nbeautiful night<br \/>\nthat could not<br \/>\ncare less about<br \/>\nthe creatures below.<\/p>\n<p>And the channel<br \/>\nnever<br \/>\never<br \/>\nchanges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bud Faust<\/strong> is a writer, poet and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana.\u00a0 Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/budfaust.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/budfaust.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Drinking electricity Next door, the light from a television through the window, always the light from a television and nothing more, no sign of anything that isn\u2019t drinking electricity or running on battery acid and brake fluid, no sign of the good earth stuff, no sign that anyone is ever one step closer [&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-9343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","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=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9345,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}