{"id":491,"date":"2019-05-20T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/?p=491"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:05:51","slug":"diana-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2019\/05\/20\/diana-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Cant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Loving Cup\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_492\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-492\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/05\/loving-cup-287x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/05\/loving-cup-287x300.jpeg 287w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/05\/loving-cup-768x803.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/05\/loving-cup-980x1024.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">illustration by Amy McCartney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s cheerful when I sit next to him, in the front,<br \/>\nlast fare of the evening, then I\u2019m off home<\/p>\n<p>with pride he tells of the new hot-tub in his garden,<br \/>\nand how he and his wife sit, passing a floating dish<\/p>\n<p>of strawberries between them as the sun sinks,<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve got our own little piece of paradise<\/p>\n<p>he says tenderly, we\u2019re living the dream:<br \/>\nAs he speeds away in to the evening<\/p>\n<p>I can picture the two of them, contented,<br \/>\nand their bobbing strawberry bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diana Cant is a child psychotherapist and poet, returning to poetry after a clinical career working with severely abused children and young people.She lives and works in Kent, is a student on the Newcastle University\/Poetry School MA course, and is a member of the Mid Kent Stanza group.She has been published in various journals and anthologies,including Humanagerie [Eibon Vale Press]; 84 [ Verve Poetry Press]; and Nine Muses [ on-line]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving Cup\u00a0 &nbsp; He\u2019s cheerful when I sit next to him, in the front, last fare of the evening, then I\u2019m off home with pride he tells of the new hot-tub in his garden, and how he and his wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2019\/05\/20\/diana-cant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}