{"id":12106,"date":"2022-09-30T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:03:50","slug":"post-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/post-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on a wooden bench in the park of the fountains<\/p>\n<p>It is a beautiful June day with a gentle caressing southerly breeze<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This park received one of the first direct hits on the city<\/p>\n<p>And is now no more than a giant crater full of the detritus of war<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You arranged to meet me on the sycamore crossing near the large fountain<\/p>\n<p>How beautiful you looked in your gossamer white cotton dress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From my position in the truncated lane I can see the warehouse shadows<\/p>\n<p>I knew some of these people from when I worked in the park in previous years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do not cover your happy eye you said from behind your colourful mask<\/p>\n<p>As your sad eye brings you nothing but pain and no longer fit for proper use<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But this was a request that I was unable to understand fully<\/p>\n<p>As my reality was by now fractured and was unlikely to survive<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on a wooden bench in the park of the fountains It is a beautiful June day with a gentle caressing southerly breeze &nbsp; This park received one of the first direct hits on the city And is now no more than a giant crater full of the detritus of war &nbsp; You [&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-12106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106","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=12106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12110,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}