{"id":14403,"date":"2023-05-21T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T14:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2023-05-21T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T14:14:01","slug":"school-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/21\/school-of-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was quite young <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother took me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see her Elephant school <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had a flat roof <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which acted as a playground <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the children during breaks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I visited the area yesterday <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to my surprise <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found the school still standing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although converted to another use <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked at the flat roof from the road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And imagined the recreation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the interwar children <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nothing apart from the trees <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moved in the Spring breeze <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children were long gone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And would never return <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago When I was quite young My mother took me To see her Elephant school It had a flat roof Which acted as a playground For the children during breaks I visited the area yesterday And to my surprise Found the school still standing Although converted to another use I looked at the [&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-14403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403","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=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14406,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}