{"id":12579,"date":"2023-01-21T19:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2023-01-21T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:23:38","slug":"dorchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/dorchester\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Dorchester<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the&nbsp;20th of July 1923 the Prince of Wales&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visited Dorchester and there met Thomas Hardy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event was recorded in the diary of my grandfather&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also noted that on the morning of the royal visit&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That he had dropped an ice cream cornet and a chocolate flake&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into the small goldfish pond at the bottom of his garden&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This amused me as I had also witnessed the remains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of an ice cream cornet sinking into a goldfish pond&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fish after an initial curiosity&nbsp;soon lost any interest&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although they dined happily on the thin chocolate flake&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That had remained floating on the surface of the water&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happened in my Dorchester garden on the 20th of July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the&nbsp;20th of July 1923 the Prince of Wales&nbsp; Visited Dorchester and there met Thomas Hardy&nbsp; This event was recorded in the diary of my grandfather&nbsp; He also noted that on the morning of the royal visit&nbsp; That he had dropped an ice cream cornet and a chocolate flake&nbsp; Into the small goldfish pond at [&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-12579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579","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=12579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12580,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions\/12580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}