{"id":16264,"date":"2023-09-10T18:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16264"},"modified":"2023-09-10T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:45:50","slug":"the-mackerel-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/the-mackerel-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mackerel Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heat of the September afternoon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was showing no signs of releasing its grip  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had just left the beach and noticed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large white yacht moored In the deep waters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposite the weather worn coastguards cottage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happened occasionally and did not attract much attention <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was until Lilith stood on the deck <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Offering free mackerel to those who lived in the village <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She then dived into the sea holding a transparent bag<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And passed it to a slender woman in a black dress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to inn keeper she would do this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To celebrate her birthday on hot days such as today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat of the September afternoon Was showing no signs of releasing its grip I had just left the beach and noticed A large white yacht moored In the deep waters Opposite the weather worn coastguards cottage This happened occasionally and did not attract much attention That was until Lilith stood on the deck Offering [&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-16264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264","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=16264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16267,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264\/revisions\/16267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}