{"id":600,"date":"2024-10-31T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2024-10-31T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:53:51","slug":"the-hole-in-the-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"The hole in the pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"I wrote this earlier this week, for a performance with Sid Calderbank, the Lancashire Society, and Lancashire Authors&#8217; Association at Tarleton Library.<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s based on a true story. There was a crack in my grandma&#8217;s pantry floor. There probably still is. It came and went. I cannot promise that it reached down to hell. <br \/><br \/>T\u2019ole in grandma&#8217;s pantry, came and went tha see<br \/>She sed th\u2019 was a mahn shaft<br \/>That fell, infernally<br \/>My teddy fell in, Jasper<br \/>Was found just half a ted<br \/>T\u2019ole \u2018d et his body<br \/>And left mi wi his ed<br \/>Mi mam sed that were rubbish<br \/>Twas no more than an inch<br \/>A slight case of subsidence<br \/>Two inches, at a pinch<br \/>Big sister, she knew better<br \/>She\u2019d erd wha t\u2019owd folks tell<br \/>In\u2019t night that ole in\u2019t pantry<br \/>Was like a wishing well<br \/>What\u2019s that yer saying mister?<br \/>That ah\u2019m t\u2019oldest one?<br \/>Ah did have a big sister<br \/>But sadly, now, she\u2019s gone<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this earlier this week, for a performance with Sid Calderbank, the Lancashire Society, and Lancashire Authors&#8217; Association at Tarleton Library. It&#8217;s based on a true story. There was a crack in my grandma&#8217;s pantry floor. There probably still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[281,166,26,77,280,12],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-rhymes","tag-childhood","tag-dark-poetry","tag-horror","tag-lancashire","tag-mines","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}