{"id":13839,"date":"2023-04-15T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2023-04-15T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T17:23:36","slug":"eric-dartingtons-suicide-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/eric-dartingtons-suicide-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dartington&#8217;s Suicide Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was a child I read Buses Illustrated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It arrived at my local newsagents <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About midway through the month<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I loved this magazine as much as I loved buses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though I was young I travelled everywhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a different world then free from most dangers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People were kind and cared for each other <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However many empty years were ahead of me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I had only had known that then <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might have avoided the pain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be my suicide note <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty ordinary as suicide notes go <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My final communication with the world <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very tired now as all I see <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the filth and the decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the fault of all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But the domain of none <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am sitting in the final bedroom <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of my parents house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are no longer here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The house is silent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only my childhood models <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remind me of my past <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are my final worlds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bus has left the garage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will never return <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child I read Buses Illustrated It arrived at my local newsagents About midway through the month I loved this magazine as much as I loved buses Even though I was young I travelled everywhere It was a different world then free from most dangers People were kind and cared for each [&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-13839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839","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=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}