{"id":12310,"date":"2023-01-18T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12310"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:15:18","slug":"the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Journey<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am on board&nbsp;a crowded&nbsp;ship&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can see Folkestone in the distance&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France is within view&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am off to war&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With luck I will return&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another soldier in a different uniform&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is waiting for me with his rifle&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might kill him&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or he might kill me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will not know until the dice is rolled&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without this dreadful war&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would have remained&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unknown to each other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we are destined to meet&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a yet to be designated place&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this conflict had not started&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might have visited his country&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And passed him anonymously in the street&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We might have exchanged knowing smiles&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I admired his beautiful companion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This theatre might have been repeated&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the small Kent town of my birth&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This foreign visitor would have been my guest&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meeting my mother and sister Sissy over tea&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;And our rifles would have only been blind nightmares<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on board&nbsp;a crowded&nbsp;ship&nbsp; I can see Folkestone in the distance&nbsp; France is within view&nbsp; I am off to war&nbsp; With luck I will return&nbsp; Another soldier in a different uniform&nbsp; Is waiting for me with his rifle&nbsp; I might kill him&nbsp; Or he might kill me&nbsp; I will not know until the dice [&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-12310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310","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=12310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12311,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions\/12311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}