{"id":12552,"date":"2023-01-21T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2023-01-21T18:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T18:35:45","slug":"a-tennis-court-in-the-moat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/a-tennis-court-in-the-moat\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>A Tennis Court in the Moat\u00a0<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I visited a castle yesterday which once&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had a tennis court in the moat&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found no trace of this recreation&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queer parties were once held here&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there were rumours of flappers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing tennis wearing only pearls&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sailors and local boys were seduced&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By those who should have known better<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all ended in tears disgrace and exile&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Families were broken and careers ruined<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decades have passed since this flamboyance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world has lost its sense of fun and innocence&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet I only witnessed happy ghosts during my afternoon visit&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They still exist and can be found at play in the&nbsp;lengthening&nbsp;shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Walmer Castle&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a castle yesterday which once&nbsp; Had a tennis court in the moat&nbsp; I found no trace of this recreation&nbsp; Queer parties were once held here&nbsp; And there were rumours of flappers&nbsp; Playing tennis wearing only pearls&nbsp; Sailors and local boys were seduced&nbsp; By those who should have known better It all ended in [&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-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","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=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12553,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}