{"id":3137,"date":"2020-05-14T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:17:34","slug":"winner-antonia-johnson-grandads-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"Winner: Antonia Johnson, <h6>&#8216;Grandad\u2019s House&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia Johnson&#8217;s poem &#8216;Grandad\u2019s House&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 <a title=\"Content related to Newcastle Poetry Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?tag=newcastle-poetry-competition\">Newcastle Poetry Competition<\/a>\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grandad\u2019s House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Grandad\u2019s house is a home<\/p>\n<p>stacked with memories piled like photographs,<\/p>\n<p>scrapbooks and albums and boxes of string,<\/p>\n<p>a place to remember when the years grow old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My grandad\u2019s house is a tidy one,<\/p>\n<p>compared to my nanny\u2019s nest of print<\/p>\n<p>where she sat like a dragon hoarding gold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My grandad\u2019s house is a shadowed house,<\/p>\n<p>where the fridge is never empty<\/p>\n<p>but the cupboards are bare:<\/p>\n<p>a KitKat always sneaks away<\/p>\n<p>and settles on a table with a cuppa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My grandad\u2019s house is a Sunday roast,<\/p>\n<p>with ice lollies, crisps, and a sofa for three,<\/p>\n<p>a conservatory strewn with the bones of empires<\/p>\n<p>and beetles rolling with wheels on their backs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My grandad\u2019s house is special,<\/p>\n<p>a feather boa in the spare room,<\/p>\n<p>a pair of laddered tights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Antonia Johnson<\/em><\/strong><strong>, 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia Johnson&#8217;s poem &#8216;Grandad\u2019s House&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize. &nbsp; Grandad\u2019s House \u00a0 My Grandad\u2019s house is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[675,664,604,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}