{"id":12891,"date":"2023-02-15T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:39:52","slug":"valentines-day-in-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/valentines-day-in-margate\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day in Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jane and I were in Margate yesterday in celebration of the day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I purchased six red balloons for Jane as she likes red balloons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were off to see the new Banksy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we both have the hots for the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nothing happened as the normally totally useless council <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had moved the freezer and protected the artwork <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jane was disappointed so I treated her to fish and chips <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We planned to eat our meal in the Nayland Rock Shelter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where Tom Eliot wrote part of The Wasteland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly the shelter was in such a mess that we could not rest there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we sat near the tidal pool with the balloons tied to the railings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was a mistake as the psychotic seagulls swooped down for our chips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And whilst mugging us accidentally released the six red balloons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We watched them as they floated serenely into the Turner sky <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And were shocked when they were shot down <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the local ground to air missiles <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But worse was to come as Jane and I <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were later arrested for reading Du Fu <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the railway station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst waiting for a cancelled train<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stan &amp; Jane  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and I were in Margate yesterday in celebration of the day I purchased six red balloons for Jane as she likes red balloons We were off to see the new Banksy As we both have the hots for the artist But nothing happened as the normally totally useless council Had moved the freezer and [&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-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","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=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}