{"id":10061,"date":"2022-02-26T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2022-02-26T06:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:09:42","slug":"london-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/london-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"London Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning as I walk to work<\/p>\n<p>I watch the mighty river<\/p>\n<p>Flowing towards the sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do I hope for<\/p>\n<p>What do I cherish<\/p>\n<p>A small finch sings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These are mysterious words<\/p>\n<p>Beyond my immediate understanding<\/p>\n<p>I know nothing of the souls of birds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was born in a house<\/p>\n<p>An ordinary blue house<\/p>\n<p>That backed on to the sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was there that I grew up<\/p>\n<p>Happy in the knowledge<\/p>\n<p>Of its vast brightness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am involved in the movement<\/p>\n<p>Of churches a rare occupation<\/p>\n<p>That is rarely discussed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But even these beautiful houses of peace<\/p>\n<p>Have problems such as poor foundations<\/p>\n<p>And the erosion of coastal standings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that I am a poet<\/p>\n<p>A deep thinker committed to thought<\/p>\n<p>But when I am not writing I am not a poet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A poster in a shop window pleases me<\/p>\n<p>It reveals a low boat in a low lake at night<\/p>\n<p>With only a pink lantern for illumination<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning as I walk to work I watch the mighty river Flowing towards the sea &nbsp; What do I hope for What do I cherish A small finch sings &nbsp; These are mysterious words Beyond my immediate understanding I know nothing of the souls of birds &nbsp; I was born in a house An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}