{"id":16126,"date":"2023-09-02T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:08:41","slug":"black-mermaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/black-mermaids\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mermaids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I once owned a large slave ship <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At that time I was married to a white mermaid <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was during one of these dark voyages <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I was told about the black mermaids <br>Who could be found in the southern seas <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I kept a look out for many years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without meeting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any of these alluring creatures <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And gradually they faded <br>From the conscious memories<br>Of my years of dark travel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am now retired and live quietly <br>In a large coastal house with Eliza Kay <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am often haunted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the black mermaids <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who are constantly watching me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I walk along the tide lines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Towards the Hell <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>That I know awaits me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once owned a large slave ship At that time I was married to a white mermaid It was during one of these dark voyages That I was told about the black mermaids Who could be found in the southern seas I kept a look out for many years Without meeting Any of these alluring [&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-16126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126","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=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16137,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/16137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}