{"id":23,"date":"2013-10-29T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.wordpress.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:18:29","slug":"questions-and-poems-at-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Questions and Poems at Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been invited to a dinner Party at METAL. We drove through the fens on a blustery night to attend Delaine le Bas&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/togypsyland.blogspot.co.uk\">To Gypsyland <\/a>project dinner.<\/p>\n<p>White walls that Delaine will adorn during the week to come, surround the dinner table which seats Delaine&#8217;s many guests. We each say who we are and recall a place we&#8217;ve been refused entry to. There are also some pertinent questions under our dinner plates: &#8220;what are you most afraid of?&#8221; or &#8220;where is the edge?&#8221; &#8211; some people post them on FB to get responses, \u00a0others swap questions amongst themselves, some write their answers on the table cloth and others keep them to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>After food and a communal fortune telling, some poetry is read.<\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done we collect more &#8216;six words about Peterborough&#8217; (see our <a href=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/28\/words-words-glorious-words\/\">previous post<\/a> for some of them) and are delighted to be presented with three striking short poems by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianlebas.com\">Damian le Bas <\/a>(yes there is a family connection &#8211; we leave you to work it out) &#8211; here they are<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25\" alt=\"Image 1\" src=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-1.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26\" alt=\"Image 2\" src=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-2.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27\" alt=\"Image 3\" src=\"http:\/\/playthecitynowornever.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/image-3.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image-3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been invited to a dinner Party at METAL. We drove through the fens on a blustery night to attend Delaine le Bas&#8217; To Gypsyland project dinner. White walls that Delaine will adorn during the week to come, surround the dinner table which seats Delaine&#8217;s many guests. We each say who we are and recall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questions and Poems at Dinner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playanywherenowornever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}