{"id":12368,"date":"2023-01-20T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:01:56","slug":"the-dark-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/the-dark-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Dark Lady<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was raised in a small village that was surrounded by a thick forest&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woodmill helped the village to survive and even prosper&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father worked there and so did both of my brothers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I became a teacher and taught at the only school&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet I had higher ambitions and applied for other posts&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was after I was accepted at a school in Thistlebridge&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I met the women&nbsp;who would later become&nbsp;my wife&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had moved into our village as she had tired of the city&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought that it might have been the result of a sad love affair&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she assured me that was not the case as she was much travelled&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moor was the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had a mane of long black hair and gentle raven eyes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was told that her father was a pirate on the high seas&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who had escaped the hangman&#8217;s noose on many occasions&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her mother had originated in Gozo lived there still&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teaching the piano to those who cared to hire her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say that I stayed in my home village&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now teach my own children and others throughout the year&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moor is now a sculptor who carves pagan figures from wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings in a steady income that happily supplements my own&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was raised in a small village that was surrounded by a thick forest&nbsp; The woodmill helped the village to survive and even prosper&nbsp; My father worked there and so did both of my brothers&nbsp; But I became a teacher and taught at the only school&nbsp; Yet I had higher ambitions and applied for other [&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-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368","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=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}