{"id":9731,"date":"2015-12-13T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2015-11-26T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:59:10","slug":"megan-figgest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/megan-figgest\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Figgest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The careful arrangement of knives and forks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cutlery and China.<br \/>\nPorcelain tea cups. Emptying glass jugs<br \/>\ninside the symmetrical room.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m minding my table manners.<br \/>\nNot chewing with my mouth open,<br \/>\nSlurping or sloshing.<\/p>\n<p>Folding my napkin into origami<br \/>\neven white squares<br \/>\non my lap.<\/p>\n<p>Passing pleases and thank yous around<br \/>\nlike little parcels,<br \/>\npackaged and delivered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan Figgest<\/strong> is a writer and English\/Drama teacher from New Zealand. She has been actively exploring the poetry scene in London since arriving in 2014. Her work is published online in <em>New Dialogues and New Beginnings<\/em> \u2013 Poetry Anthology 2013 and in 2012 her poem \u2018Instant Kiwis\u2019 was judged first place by poet Hinemoana Baker in a New Zealand poetry competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The careful arrangement of knives and forks Cutlery and China. Porcelain tea cups. Emptying glass jugs inside the symmetrical room. I\u2019m minding my table manners. Not chewing with my mouth open, Slurping or sloshing. Folding my napkin into origami even white squares on my lap. Passing pleases and thank yous around [&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-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","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=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}