{"id":14550,"date":"2023-05-29T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14550"},"modified":"2023-05-29T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:56:55","slug":"hummingbirds-and-tortoises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/hummingbirds-and-tortoises\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds and Tortoises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago when visiting my home village<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spoke to a farmer in a country lane <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our discussion centred around change <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And why the fields and trees <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More or less remained the same <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that hummingbirds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were only active for a few seasons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before they destroyed themselves <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The faster you live the faster you will fade <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pointed to his ancient cottage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which had a crumbling shed not far away <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He loved tortoises and gave them the run of his garden <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the warmer months and the shed for hibernation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They can teach you so much about life <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As they move around slowly without much excitement <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the pace of nature which is constant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These fields and trees are the same <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They change only but four times a year <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generations of creatures come and go <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a firm life cycle that will not change <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless it is interfered with by fools like me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago when visiting my home village I spoke to a farmer in a country lane Our discussion centred around change And why the fields and trees More or less remained the same He noted that hummingbirds Were only active for a few seasons Before they destroyed themselves The faster you live the faster [&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-14550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550","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=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14553,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions\/14553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}