{"id":11959,"date":"2022-09-16T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2022-09-16T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:44:43","slug":"canterbury-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/canterbury-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:18 on the 16th of September I could be found reading <em>Le Nihilisme Europeen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a riverside park in Canterbury not far from the magnificent cathedral<\/p>\n<p>I had been in this location for over an hour studying Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p>As I always did on Thursday mornings during term time<\/p>\n<p>The air was cooler than it had been for many months<\/p>\n<p>A brisk northerly had arrived and was now positioned over the city<\/p>\n<p>Yet this favoured the sky which was almost cloud free and flat in its brightness<\/p>\n<p>How I admired the smooth majesty of this sky and the sharp shadows it produced<\/p>\n<p>I took breaks from my study to watch people as the philosopher might have done<\/p>\n<p>They were mostly fresh face students or visitors from overseas yet I found their presence agreeable<\/p>\n<p>Nobody really noticed me or my orange book which was comforting as I did not want company<\/p>\n<p>At eleven I saw you in the distance and waved although you did not notice me immediately<\/p>\n<p>When you did you smiled and waved and positioned yourself on a wooden bench opposite my station<\/p>\n<p>We pretended not to know each other which was a game we often played<\/p>\n<p>And acted like soon to be lovers shy under the fading autumn trees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:18 on the 16th of September I could be found reading Le Nihilisme Europeen In a riverside park in Canterbury not far from the magnificent cathedral I had been in this location for over an hour studying Nietzsche As I always did on Thursday mornings during term time The air was cooler than it [&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\/11959"}],"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=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}