{"id":11692,"date":"2022-08-22T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2022-08-22T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:49:55","slug":"al-bowlly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/22\/al-bowlly\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Bowlly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard his voice on my grandmothers record player<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to her country cottage<\/p>\n<p>I asked who he was as I loved his soft voice<\/p>\n<p>And was told that his name was Al Bowlly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I enquired whether I might see him in concert<\/p>\n<p>But Grandma told me that he was dead<\/p>\n<p>As he had been killed during the war<\/p>\n<p>The victim of a German bomb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I later found out that his last resting place<\/p>\n<p>Was in a graveyard next to a railway line<\/p>\n<p>In a leafy suburb of West London<\/p>\n<p>Not far from where I had once lived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard his voice on my grandmothers record player On a visit to her country cottage I asked who he was as I loved his soft voice And was told that his name was Al Bowlly &nbsp; I enquired whether I might see him in concert But Grandma told me that he was dead [&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-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","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=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}