{"id":11403,"date":"2022-07-27T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-07-27T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:21:03","slug":"the-last-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/the-last-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I watched a movie at an arts festival<\/p>\n<p>It was called Brief Crossing and was directed by Catherine Breillat<\/p>\n<p>In short it was about a young French man who meets an older English woman<\/p>\n<p>They connect and end up making love as the ferry travels from France to England<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my youth I quite frequently travelled<\/p>\n<p>To France and back on these ferries<\/p>\n<p>But this never happened to me<\/p>\n<p>As I was always on deck watching my England fade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I now live on the coast and can clearly see the ferries crossing<\/p>\n<p>They seem to glide across the silver sea in all weathers<\/p>\n<p>What brief dramas are being played out I wonder<\/p>\n<p>If any at all as for most life is by its very nature is rather predictable<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Guy French<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I watched a movie at an arts festival It was called Brief Crossing and was directed by Catherine Breillat In short it was about a young French man who meets an older English woman They connect and end up making love as the ferry travels from France to England &nbsp; In my [&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-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","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=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}