{"id":854,"date":"2005-04-13T01:11:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=854"},"modified":"2005-04-13T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T12:11:42","slug":"simon-armitageit-aint-what-you-do-its-what-it-does-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/854","title":{"rendered":"Simon Armitage\/It ain&#8217;t what you do, it&#8217;s what it does to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n \tI have not bummed across America<br \/>\nwith only a dollar to spare, one pair<br \/>\nof busted Levi&#8217;s and a bowie knife.<br \/>\nI have lived with thieves in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>I have not padded through the Taj Mahal,<br \/>\nbarefoot, listening to the space between<br \/>\neach footfall picking up and putting down<br \/>\nits print against the marble floor. But I<\/p>\n<p>skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day<br \/>\nso still I could hear each set of ripples<br \/>\nas they crossed. I felt each stone&#8217;s inertia<br \/>\nspend itself against the water; then sink.<\/p>\n<p>I have not toyed with a parachute cord<br \/>\nwhile perched on the lip of a light-aircraft;<br \/>\nbut I held the wobbly head of a boy<br \/>\nat the day centre, and stroked his fat hands.<\/p>\n<p>And I guess that the tightness in the throat<br \/>\nand the tiny cascading sensation<br \/>\nsomewhere inside us are both part of that<br \/>\nsense of something else. That feeling, I mean.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/archives\/quotes\/it_aint_what_you_do.html\">Idiolect<\/a>]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one pair of busted Levi&#8217;s and a bowie knife. I have lived with thieves in Manchester. I have not padded through the Taj Mahal, barefoot, listening to the space between each footfall picking up and putting down its print against the marble floor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}