{"id":4189,"date":"2023-06-14T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:54:07","slug":"4189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2023\/06\/14\/4189\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&#8216;Bus stop&#8217; by Matt Alton<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The passer by denies my existence<br \/>with the confidence of their gait,<br \/>the steadiness of their gaze.<br \/>I peel back layers of skin<br \/>to show the shining mess, but<br \/><br \/>each time I\u2019m swallowed by earth \u2013 <br \/>which in case you\u2019ve forgotten<br \/>is cold, full of dead, sharp things.<br \/>It\u2019s like fucking an iron maiden \u2013 <br \/>which, in case the information passed you by,<br \/>is a fictionalised torture device.<br \/>Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>by Matt Alton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattaltonpoet\/\">Website ;\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/@mattaltonpoet\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Bus stop&#8217; by Matt Alton The passer by denies my existencewith the confidence of their gait,the steadiness of their gaze.I peel back layers of skinto show the shining mess, but each time I\u2019m swallowed by earth \u2013 which in case you\u2019ve forgottenis cold, full of dead, sharp things.It\u2019s like fucking an iron maiden \u2013 which, [&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-4189","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\/s8bHTD-4189","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}