{"id":12594,"date":"2023-01-21T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2023-01-21T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:42:00","slug":"bus-shelter-poem-undated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/bus-shelter-poem-undated\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Bus Shelter Poem (undated)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never been able&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To work this one out&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do we love LAND so much<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is nearly always about LAND&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fields Hills Mountains&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deserts Towns Cities&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rivers Seas and Dust&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Husbands Die Brothers Die&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sons Die Daughters Die&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wives Die Many Die&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even this bus shelter suffered&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the last war when struck by a shell&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was totally destroyed and am sitting&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the replacement shelter&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing this short poem&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A short poem has been left in a bus shelter<\/em><br><em>between Sandwich and Deal every year since 1983<\/em><br><em>these poems are normally found in late September&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>and to date the poet has remained anonymous&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been able&nbsp; To work this one out&nbsp; Why do we love LAND so much It is nearly always about LAND&nbsp; Fields Hills Mountains&nbsp; Deserts Towns Cities&nbsp; Rivers Seas and Dust&nbsp; Husbands Die Brothers Die&nbsp; Sons Die Daughters Die&nbsp; Wives Die Many Die&nbsp; Even this bus shelter suffered&nbsp; During the last war when [&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-12594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594","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=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12595,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions\/12595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}