{"id":14376,"date":"2022-01-28T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/christmas-in-belfast-1991\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:15:58","slug":"christmas-in-belfast-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/christmas-in-belfast-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Belfast, 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799-271x300.jpg 271w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799-398x441.jpg 398w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34fed0855a31e44e5f62b48104bae799-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Christmas In Belfast, 1991<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Owen Gallagher<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Before mass, the milk runs, the paper rounds,<br \/>she hauled her son in through the door.<br \/>The soldiers returned to barracks for a full belly.<\/p>\n<p>Taking off her Sunday best, laying him out<br \/>on the table to rest, she scrubbed him clean,<br \/>sewed him up, where he peeped through.<\/p>\n<p>And when she was done, his tie and suit pressed,<br \/>Pioneer Pin closing his breast, didn\u2019t she pour<br \/>paraffin over him, set him alight. So, no one could<\/p>\n<p>see what they had done to her wee boy. And didn\u2019t<br \/>she go out into the street, kitchen knife under<br \/>her apron, and take three soldiers with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas In Belfast, 1991 by Owen Gallagher \u00a0Before mass, the milk runs, the paper rounds,she hauled her son in through the door.The soldiers returned to barracks for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":14375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}