{"id":10982,"date":"2022-06-10T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:48:55","slug":"thinking-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/10\/thinking-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often spend time in libraries<\/p>\n<p>Thinking of large trees<\/p>\n<p>Their ages interest me greatly<\/p>\n<p>As they never celebrate birthdays<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a tall poplar tree<\/p>\n<p>At the end of my large garden<\/p>\n<p>It was planted by the architect<\/p>\n<p>Who designed this beautiful house<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My father was going to demolish the tree<\/p>\n<p>When our swimming pool was installed<\/p>\n<p>But Sissy and I persuaded him to leave it standing<\/p>\n<p>And now we have dappled shade on very hot days<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although this tree has never celebrated its birthday<\/p>\n<p>And probably does not understand the concept<\/p>\n<p>We often hold a celebration on mid summers day<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the birth of this wonderful tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed of late in our nearby village<\/p>\n<p>That people are celebrating the birth of their trees<\/p>\n<p>Two oaks and a yew tree were chosen only last week<\/p>\n<p>And the curate has plans for the apple orchards nearby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Outlaw<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often spend time in libraries Thinking of large trees Their ages interest me greatly As they never celebrate birthdays &nbsp; I have a tall poplar tree At the end of my large garden It was planted by the architect Who designed this beautiful house &nbsp; My father was going to demolish the tree When [&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-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","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=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10985,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}