{"id":9581,"date":"2015-11-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2015-10-23T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:18:03","slug":"dennis-herrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dennis-herrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Herrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh, Thank You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite beautiful,<br \/>\na very delicate porcelain<br \/>\nwell turned by a dedicated hand.<br \/>\nThe floral white and blue<br \/>\nare my favorite colors,<br \/>\nand the shape elegantly fuses<br \/>\nform and function.<br \/>\nI will forever treasure<br \/>\nand take good care of this piece of art,<br \/>\nfor it is just as precious,<br \/>\nthey say,<br \/>\nas my master&#8217;s slops within.<\/p>\n<p>In this Year of our Lord, 1775,<br \/>\nyour humble servant,<br \/>\nWilliam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Herrell<\/strong> writes both serious and humorous poems about his life in this civilized society. (Poking fun at himself is almost a full-time job.) He especially likes to look at the small things in everyday life that make us (him) so individual and vulnerable. Recent acceptances by <em>Atlanta Review,Aura, Aurorean, Christian Science Monitor, Confrontation, Connecticut\u00a0 River Review, Pearl, Poem, Poet Lore, <\/em>and<em> others.\u00a0<\/em> Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisherrell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dennisherrell.com\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oh, Thank You It&#8217;s quite beautiful, a very delicate porcelain well turned by a dedicated hand. The floral white and blue are my favorite colors, and the shape elegantly fuses form and function. I will forever treasure and take good care of this piece of art, for it is just as precious, [&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-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","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=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9584,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}