{"id":345092,"date":"2018-01-23T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uranium-bullets-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:05:35","slug":"uranium-bullets-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uranium-bullets-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranium Bullets | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-76010\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Maria Stadnicka \/ January 21st, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I always arrive late for everything.<br \/>Stuck in a traffic jam by the docks,<br \/>missed Noah\u2019s boat but<br \/>survived under water<br \/>accidentally trapped between stolen books<br \/>by a word heavier than a stone,<br \/>lighter than a feather.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden in the overcrowded wooden train carriage,<br \/>radicalised by the anonymity of my blue name-tag,<br \/>with a heart growing outside my body.<br \/>Each beat painfully visible to the guards<br \/>around the Monopoly table.<\/p>\n<p>On the waiting list for ballet lessons,<br \/>radicalised by the price of uranium bullets on Mother\u2019s Day<br \/>handwriting an apologetic note.<br \/>My deep eye silenced.<\/p>\n<p>The familiar solemnity of a world without face.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">Maria Stadnicka is a writer, freelance journalist and lecturer.  Winner of 12 Romanian National Poetry prizes, she worked as a radio and TV broadcaster. She has lived in Gloucestershire, England since 2003. Published poetry collections:  O-Zone<em> Friendly<\/em>, <em>A Short Story about War<\/em>, <em>Imperfect<\/em>.  Further details about Maria&#8217;s work and portfolio available on her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariastadnicka.com\/\">www.mariastadnicka.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/mariastadnicka\/\">Read other articles by Maria<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, January 21st, 2018 at 8:03am and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/poetry\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Poetry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/uranium-bullets\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Maria Stadnicka \/ January 21st, 2018 I always arrive late for everything.Stuck in a traffic jam by the docks,missed Noah\u2019s boat butsurvived under wateraccidentally trapped between stolen booksby a word heavier than a stone,lighter than a feather. Hidden in the overcrowded wooden train carriage,radicalised by the anonymity of my blue name-tag,with a heart growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}