{"id":12258,"date":"2023-01-18T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:46:47","slug":"george-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/george-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>George Lewis<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met a man who told me that his name was George Lewis&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Cafe Lea charity shop this afternoon&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was looking for a set of forks with ivory handles&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This man smelt vaguely of the farm which surprised me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one does not find many farms in area of Kings X&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He asked me if I was a poet a question which I found direct&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I said that yes I did write poetry but whether I was a poet or not was open to opinion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He handed me a slip of paper which too smelt of the farm&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It contained a poem written in Welsh which was an advantage as I spoke a little Welsh&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was called Trespass&nbsp;<em>(Tremasu )<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Translated it read&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What is worse than a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; in my town&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With a chip on his shoulder&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why do you say that George ?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Because I like fish and chips&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And if one is stationed on a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; shoulder&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Then there is one less for me&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George asked me if i liked the poem<em>&nbsp;(I did)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And told me that he was visiting London&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to find&nbsp;me in the Cafe Lea&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further informed&nbsp;me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That he had been born in a small village&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next to the sea in a remote part of Anglesey&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a man who told me that his name was George Lewis&nbsp; In the Cafe Lea charity shop this afternoon&nbsp; I was looking for a set of forks with ivory handles&nbsp; This man smelt vaguely of the farm which surprised me&nbsp; As one does not find many farms in area of Kings X&nbsp; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258","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=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12259,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions\/12259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}