{"id":961,"date":"2007-01-10T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=961"},"modified":"2007-01-10T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T20:06:00","slug":"new-haibun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-haibun\/","title":{"rendered":"New haibun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Do they still sit and dream on the Parkinson Steps?<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Past the late night Warsaw Stores at the end of the road, across the street from the Sikh temple by the traffic lights. Did the sign in that cafe really say <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Only one fork per plate<\/span> ? Later, sitting around the kitchen fireplace, at the house we shared off the Chapeltown Road, we\u2019d make French toast, drink cheap black coffee and watch unwanted lecture notes burn in the open grate, as we\u2019d talk long into the night&#8230; about back-to-backs, Hunslett legs and the Quarry Hill flats. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">You were reading medicine, I was studying politics but that was the day before yesterday \u2013 half a lifetime ago when we were both still so young and cool and wild and free.We\u2019ve long since fallen from each other\u2019s radar screens. You never found that cure for cancer, I never changed the world. It\u2019s been over thirty years since I last made French toast \u2013 and I don\u2019t take my coffee black anymore.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">back for a class reunion<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">the only face I recognise is mine<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2022 OK, this is a bit of a cheat as it&#39;s by the editor Charles Christian however it was originally published by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blithe Spirit<\/span> in June 2006<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do they still sit and dream on the Parkinson Steps?Past the late night Warsaw Stores at the end of the road, across the street from the Sikh temple by the traffic lights. Did the sign in that cafe really say Only one fork per plate ? Later, sitting around the kitchen fireplace, at the house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}