{"id":11828,"date":"2022-09-03T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11828"},"modified":"2022-09-03T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T08:45:20","slug":"a-dream-within-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/03\/a-dream-within-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream Within A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had studied history at Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>And was considered an outstanding student<\/p>\n<p>Much was expected of me but then I vanished<\/p>\n<p>It was possibly because I understood history far too well<\/p>\n<p>So well that I could see into the future and this frightened me<\/p>\n<p>Rather like the Stone Age Man who watched fast trains<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They found me working in a pink ironmongers shop<\/p>\n<p>Located just outside Belfry Bell which is a suburb of Belfry Hell<\/p>\n<p>They just walked in one Tuesday afternoon an hour before closing time<\/p>\n<p>And told me that my code name was Audrey and that I was to go with them<\/p>\n<p>The tallest of the guys (Phil) told Mr Phillips that he was my late brother<\/p>\n<p>And that my mother was very ill and I needed to travel to London Cologne<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was taken to a building not far from London Bridge London Bridges<\/p>\n<p>Was the name of my controller and it was there that I met Kate West<\/p>\n<p>Who was controlling the whole operation code named Sally&#8217;s World<\/p>\n<p>Kate West was as tall as me (1,85) and wore a white vest and black jeans<\/p>\n<p>She said that I had been chosen because of my detailed knowledge of African history<\/p>\n<p>My mission was to travel with her to a landlocked country to where we would lay low for an hour<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our cover was that of missionaries and we were to travel to many of the desert villages to bring help<\/p>\n<p>But whilst we were there we were to take samples of the soil to see if it contained KQF49<\/p>\n<p>FBF49 was a mineral so rare that it had never been discovered before except in Aberdeen and Hull<\/p>\n<p>In a way it was more important than gold or uranium because of its many uses in the toy industry<\/p>\n<p>If located we were to meet the president of KQF50 and offer him a great deal of money and a few donkey&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for his country and its gas stations and the whole library of its most famous writer Outlaw<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to be continued<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had studied history at Cambridge And was considered an outstanding student Much was expected of me but then I vanished It was possibly because I understood history far too well So well that I could see into the future and this frightened me Rather like the Stone Age Man who watched fast trains &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828"}],"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=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11832,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions\/11832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}