{"id":511,"date":"2019-06-03T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/?p=511"},"modified":"2019-06-02T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:25:29","slug":"michael-mchugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2019\/06\/03\/michael-mchugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McHugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Above Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-image-512 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/06\/Above-us-e1559510525855-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/06\/Above-us-e1559510525855-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/06\/Above-us-e1559510525855-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/06\/Above-us-e1559510525855-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2019\/06\/Above-us-e1559510525855-476x300.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">illustration by Amy McCartney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The geese<br \/>\nare above us,<br \/>\nunzipping<br \/>\nthe grey afternoon,<br \/>\nhonking<br \/>\nto clear from their path<br \/>\nbirds of lesser purpose.<br \/>\n<em>Let us through!<\/em><br \/>\nthey cry,<br \/>\nflying doctors,<br \/>\nhealers of winter\u2019s<br \/>\nglinting wounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael McHugh has made film documentaries for television as a researcher\/ scriptwriter and, as a community worker, has addressed the needs of people experiencing social and economic disadvantage. Currently studying the MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University. Michael&#8217;s poetry has been published in anthologies by Hodder and Stoughton and by Walker Books and in Butcher&#8217;s Dog and Here Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above Us The geese are above us, unzipping the grey afternoon, honking to clear from their path birds of lesser purpose. Let us through! they cry, flying doctors, healers of winter\u2019s glinting wounds. &nbsp; &nbsp; Michael McHugh has made film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2019\/06\/03\/michael-mchugh\/\">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-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}