{"id":15494,"date":"2023-08-03T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-liverpool-home\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T06:52:46","slug":"my-liverpool-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-liverpool-home\/","title":{"rendered":"My Liverpool Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-600x302.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-441x222.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-768x387.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-1536x773.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-2048x1031.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/73e7b6171e83b35e57f44017edca6275-10x5.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>My Liverpool home<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Ruth Aylett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey <br \/>whose bottlenecked tides scoured<br \/>the sand that did for Chester;<br \/>made by blood money <br \/>lives of the enslaved, ground<br \/>down into the riches of sugar.<\/p>\n<p>The quick wits of a port city,<br \/>though no port now,<br \/>no merchantmen sailing for Rio;<br \/>the Three Graces sit marooned<br \/>and the Liverbird looks down its beak<br \/>on a Pierhead of museums and tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Dissed by a London elite that hates<br \/>the zero deference, verbal aggression,<br \/>the live current that<br \/>shocks the status quo.<br \/>Scouse city, reds and blues, refuse <br \/>to shrivel, fade, piss-off. And will<br \/>never ever buy that rag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":15490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15494","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\/15494","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}