{"id":12971,"date":"2023-02-20T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2023-02-20T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:25:26","slug":"the-salt-path-and-the-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/the-salt-path-and-the-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salt Path and the Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born in a cottage next to the Apple Estuary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father was a fisherman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As was his father and his father before him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I did not follow them on to the boats <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I had been given a rare musical talent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was accepted into a Music School <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which shaped my glittering career<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am now a world famous composer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having worked on many successful films <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cottage now is in my possession <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And remains very much the same <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it was when I was a child <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> My father was drowned last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When The Salt Path was lost <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the rocks off Apple Point <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I now display his violin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my small bedroom <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in his honour have purchased <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A redundant fishing boat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I have named <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Salt Path and the Violin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in a cottage next to the Apple Estuary My father was a fisherman As was his father and his father before him But I did not follow them on to the boats As I had been given a rare musical talent And was accepted into a Music School Which shaped my glittering [&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-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","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=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}