{"id":4101,"date":"2021-02-25T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:19:40","slug":"bus-stop-by-matt-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2021\/02\/25\/bus-stop-by-matt-alton\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bus Stop&#8217; by Matt Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">The passer by denies my existence<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">with the confidence of their gait,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">the steadiness of their gaze.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">I peel back layers of skin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">to show the shining mess, but<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">each time I\u2019m swallowed by earth \u2013 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">which in case you\u2019ve forgotten<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">is cold, full of dead, sharp things.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">It\u2019s like fucking an iron maiden \u2013 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">which, in case the information passed you by,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">is a fictionalised torture device.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Make of that what you will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; by Matt Alton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattaltonpoet\/\">Further information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattAltonPoet\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passer by denies my existence with the confidence of their gait, the steadiness of their gaze. I peel back layers of skin to show the shining mess, but each time I\u2019m swallowed by earth \u2013 which in case you\u2019ve forgotten is cold, full of dead, sharp things. It\u2019s like fucking an iron maiden \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,12],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-body","tag-invisibility","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-149","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}