{"id":1536,"date":"2014-04-14T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1536"},"modified":"2014-05-02T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:46:44","slug":"of-drinkers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1536","title":{"rendered":"The Patron Saint of Drinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1249 alignright\" alt=\"saint-monica\" src=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/saint-monica-229x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With this corkscrew from the drawer<br \/>\nyou might as well remove your eyes;<br \/>\nlychees dropped on the kitchen lino.<br \/>\nOr maybe puncture through the sternum<br \/>\nand touch the tip against the heart<br \/>\nto elicit a sudden gushing confession.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll have another glass of wine,<br \/>\nbut that is hemlock mixed with petrol.<br \/>\nSee your friends swimming in the bottle,<br \/>\npacked in tight like pickled chillies,<br \/>\ntheir faces warped against the glass.<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re lighting up a cigarette,<br \/>\nknow this: you\u2019re in mortal danger.<br \/>\nA little pyramid of barbecue briquettes<br \/>\nsmoulders in your unventilated stomach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1517\">&lt; Back to the Patron Saints<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>With this corkscrew from the drawer you might as well remove your eyes; lychees dropped on the kitchen lino. Or maybe puncture through the sternum and touch the tip against the heart to elicit a sudden gushing confession. You\u2019ll have another glass of wine, but that is hemlock mixed with petrol. See your friends [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1517,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1536\/revisions\/1641"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}