{"id":11891,"date":"2022-09-09T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:13:12","slug":"the-philosophy-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/the-philosophy-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophy Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often visit a bookshop in a university town<\/p>\n<p>Just to sit on a low step and gaze at the philosophical books<\/p>\n<p>Before I start I photograph the three shelves twice<\/p>\n<p>So that I might compare them with my previous visits<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is a relaxing occupation as I am left alone<\/p>\n<p>With only the sheet music and the classical sections<\/p>\n<p>Divorced from my somewhat lonely station<\/p>\n<p>I am usually able to choose from around fifty books<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On my last visit I purchased a Sartre and five magazines<\/p>\n<p>Previously to that a Heidegger and a Bachelard<\/p>\n<p>I am often joined by the ghost of Albert Camus<\/p>\n<p>And we discuss the absurdity of my quiet theatre<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Saul Green\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often visit a bookshop in a university town Just to sit on a low step and gaze at the philosophical books Before I start I photograph the three shelves twice So that I might compare them with my previous visits &nbsp; It is a relaxing occupation as I am left alone With only the [&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-11891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891","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=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}