{"id":15855,"date":"2023-08-17T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=15855"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:44:30","slug":"rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/rum\/","title":{"rendered":"Rum Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paine and I had arranged to meet on the beach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was our Rum Day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I had forgotten the rum <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it was a Bum Day instead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was reading Gatsby <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the shade of a bush <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Paine was sitting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our green beach chair <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The air had cooled since our last visit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there were fleeting clouds in the sky <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when the August sun emerged <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was pleasant warm and bright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waves which were clearly within view <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were subtly violent and suggested a storm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt a little sleepy but Paine was engrossed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her orange cream and black book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the sun was behind her and blinded me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked her what book she was reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you want to know you silly boy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if it interests you I am currently reading <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have such a short memory Nick <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you gave it to me the month<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> After mummy was murdered in her bed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paine and I had arranged to meet on the beach It was our Rum Day But I had forgotten the rum So it was a Bum Day instead I was reading Gatsby In the shade of a bush Whereas Paine was sitting In our green beach chair The air had cooled since our last visit [&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-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","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=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15866,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions\/15866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}