{"id":1721,"date":"2013-06-26T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T07:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2013-06-27T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:27:43","slug":"my-gran-had-a-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"My Gran had a Time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Table\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Table1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1724\" alt=\"Table\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Table1-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Table1-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Table1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>My Gran had a Time machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Gran had a time machine<br \/>There&#8217;s no other explanation.<br \/>She had no CCTV screen<br \/>or snitches to grass me in,<br \/>from friends or neighbours looking<br \/>behind twitching curtains, unseen.<br \/>But she always knew what I had done<br \/>when I was naughty, bad or cursed,<br \/>or played cards on the Sabbath day<br \/>or stole or spat or worse.<br \/>No lie detector tests for her-<br \/>just those burning eyes<br \/>that looked deep down inside you.<br \/>and saw right through your lies.<br \/>She was always an old lady so<br \/>no point of view of a kid.<br \/>no secret mirrors or x-ray specs<br \/>or invisibility cloak where she hid.<br \/>She wasn\u2019t psychic or a 7th daughter<br \/>Of a 7th daughter, it would seem<br \/>There&#8217;s no other explanation.<br \/>My Gran had a time machine<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0 John Black <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>UK<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}