{"id":15915,"date":"2023-08-21T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2023-08-21T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:31:18","slug":"beaches-phones-do-not-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/beaches-phones-do-not-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaches &#038; Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dearest Lyonesse <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is late summer now and the days are becoming deeper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our beach hours are becoming less frequent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the East Kent light is even more perfect <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than I am ever sourced to imagine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the coming months the beach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will wear its austere winter&#8217;s coat  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the romance of this summer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will be a just a fond memory <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that is not my news <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My news is that of stupidity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have broken my phone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is grievously injured <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awaiting I would consider<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Slow Death <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It slipped out of my pocket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I sat down and was crushed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Against the ancient pebbles <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first I thought I had damaged its facade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I soon became aware that the plasma <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I trust that this is the right word my friend) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had been mortally wounded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My phone now lies on the table <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which has views towards the sea <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is still functioning but its power is shallow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The absurdity of the situation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appeals to me but I do question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why we tend to injure <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who are closest to us <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether intentionally or not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fondness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rex <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Lyonesse It is late summer now and the days are becoming deeper Our beach hours are becoming less frequent Yet the East Kent light is even more perfect Than I am ever sourced to imagine In the coming months the beach Will wear its austere winter&#8217;s coat And the romance of this summer Will [&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-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","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=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}