{"id":15849,"date":"2023-08-17T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:14:35","slug":"goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/goalkeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day before the match <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I damaged my wrist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was unable to play in the cup tie <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My club did not have another goalkeeper <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So my friend Polly offered her services <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she played in the local female leagues <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trouble was that I was very tall <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Polly was rather short <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was unable to attend the game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I was having treatment on my wrist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I arranged to meet Polly in the evening <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We chose The Goalkeepers Fear of the Penalty <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it was a country pub and the beer was cheap <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I asked the score Polly said that we had lost 9-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that a number of the goals conceded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were down to her height <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a gesture of thanks I invited Polly to an art gallery next day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the endless wall was again being exhibited on the seafront <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day before the match I damaged my wrist And was unable to play in the cup tie My club did not have another goalkeeper So my friend Polly offered her services As she played in the local female leagues The trouble was that I was very tall Whereas Polly was rather short I [&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-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","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=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15854,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions\/15854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}