{"id":1362,"date":"2014-02-22T12:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:00:48","slug":"goodbye-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSCF4810\"The half an ounce I bought today will be my last;
\na classic blend of bright Virginia and rich Kentucky.
\nI can\u2019t imagine the tonnes I\u2019ve smoked (minus papers),
\nbut, ladies of Lotto and tobacco counters, this is farewell.
\nI give too much to you, Tobacco and ladies of Camelot,
\nbut most to you, Tobacco. You break my concentration,
\ncall time on poems after just a title or seventh line;
\nI\u2019d like to stretch them out, perhaps beyond a page
\nor at least to write until I need to pause and think,
\na biro loosely pinched between my first two fingers.
\nI\u2019ll miss the way you punctuate long waits in public places
\nand how you sneak me out of awkward conversations,
\nbut it\u2019s time I understood the weight of what you take
\nand what I blow away in streams through puckered lips.<\/p>\n

There are people I stand and talk with outside the pub
\nwith whom the only thing I have in common is you,
\ndrawing in my cheeks, and this half-love, half-hate.
\nA part of me thinks I should just let you stay
\nwhen I imagine myself, some months from now,
\nkeeping up acquaintance with our mutual friends
\non the off-chance I\u2019ll catch a whiff of you, like a man,
\nrecently divorced, outside his ex-wife\u2019s place of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The half an ounce I bought today will be my last; a classic blend of bright Virginia and rich Kentucky. I can\u2019t imagine the tonnes I\u2019ve smoked (minus papers), but, ladies of Lotto and tobacco counters, this is farewell. I give too much to you, Tobacco and ladies of Camelot, but most to you, Tobacco. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}