{"id":360,"date":"2024-11-22T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/?p=360"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:41:04","slug":"save-our-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Save Our Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suddenly it was like nothing mattered,<br>One mere scratch on the cornea of God.<br>Self-imposed within a manmade rapture<br><br>Silently, nature still evaded our capture.<br>Our blood left on the palms of hands that<br>Slid the knife into the backs of children.<br><br>Seeing how well your money floats<br>Only now seeing what you monopolised &#8211;<br>Seas, trees, and the rays of sunshine.<br><br>Sending workers to build you a boat<br>Obtained from oils spills and dollar bills to<br>Sail into the sunset as we try to stay afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Millie Percival is a 21 year old poet from Scarborough, North Yorkshire who is currently studying English Literature Creative Writing at university. Her\u00a0previous\u00a0published works include<\/em>\u00a0I Wish to Return Home\u00a0<em>published by The Ekphrastic Review as well as smaller publications in the university\u00a0literary magazine FLASH with\u00a0<\/em>April Fools\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>Ode to Saturn<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can find Millie on Instagram @artificial_lemons<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly it was like nothing mattered,One mere scratch on the cornea of God.Self-imposed within a manmade rapture Silently, nature still evaded our capture.Our blood left on the palms of hands thatSlid the knife into the backs of children. Seeing how well your money floatsOnly now seeing what you monopolised &#8211;Seas, trees, and the rays of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}