{"id":14746,"date":"2023-06-09T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14746"},"modified":"2023-06-09T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:36:14","slug":"the-woman-by-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/09\/the-woman-by-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman by the Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had been employed to clean swimming pools <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a very relaxed occupation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used a large net to remove the organic debris <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then would dispose of the sacks elsewhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually I was on my own but occasionally <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owners and their guests stayed in the pool area <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It did not matter to me as I was just the pool boy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a month ago I met a famous French actress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who asked me to read Victor Hugo to her as she swam in her pool <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spent the afternoon together just chatting and swimming <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She asked me to read part of a script that she had been sent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this ended when her husband returned with his sister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an afternoon unlike other afternoons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> And I knew it would not be easily forgotten<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been employed to clean swimming pools It was a very relaxed occupation I used a large net to remove the organic debris And then would dispose of the sacks elsewhere Usually I was on my own but occasionally The owners and their guests stayed in the pool area It did not matter to [&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-14746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","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=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14752,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions\/14752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}