{"id":12356,"date":"2023-01-19T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2023-01-19T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:16:39","slug":"the-signalman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/the-signalman\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Signalman<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the weeks before Christmas&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started making mistakes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serious mistakes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very serious mistakes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which resulted in a rear end collision&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Near to the entrance of the tunnel&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seventeen innocent people died&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of my incompetence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had no idea why these mistakes occurred<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I was subsequently sent to prison&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where I hung myself in my&nbsp;cell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I could not live with the shame&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I now haunt my once loved signal box&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is just a dark decaying shell&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line was closed soon after the crash&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it was not paying its way but I knew the truth&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had always known the truth&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tall signal next to the boarded up tunnel&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still stands at danger in the deepening undergrowth&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the impressions of the tracks always fill with water&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the weeks leading up to Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;No matter the weather&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colourful festive trains often pass my cold unlit box&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their spectral journeys remaining unseen to all but me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my true and final punishment&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the weeks before Christmas&nbsp; I started making mistakes&nbsp; Serious mistakes&nbsp; Very serious mistakes&nbsp; Which resulted in a rear end collision&nbsp; Near to the entrance of the tunnel&nbsp; Seventeen innocent people died&nbsp; Because of my incompetence I had no idea why these mistakes occurred But I was subsequently sent to prison&nbsp; Where I hung myself [&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-12356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356","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=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12357,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}