{"id":16138,"date":"2023-09-03T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16138"},"modified":"2023-09-03T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:16:28","slug":"the-best-poems-are-never-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/the-best-poems-are-never-published\/","title":{"rendered":"The best poems are never published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This small dusty book contains a poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by a slave owner and is an account <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the execution by hanging of one of his slaves <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who was accused of brutally raping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A white woman in her own house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was written just over two hundred years ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And is a fine and moving poem  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though it was considered too visceral <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be published at the time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been locked in this metal box <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most of its wretched life <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I have no plans to release it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the best poems are never published <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small dusty book contains a poem Written by a slave owner and is an account Of the execution by hanging of one of his slaves Who was accused of brutally raping A white woman in her own house It was written just over two hundred years ago And is a fine and moving poem [&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-16138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16138","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=16138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16141,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16138\/revisions\/16141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}