{"id":16294,"date":"2023-09-13T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16294"},"modified":"2023-09-13T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:17:50","slug":"the-murmur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/the-murmur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murmurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was staying with Kate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst on a field trip <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had been together <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a number of years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she had invited me to visit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Bog Lands <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where she had spent her early years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were staying in her parents cottage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of our Scottish adventure <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it had rained without a break <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we had not made much progress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we hung out on the farm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Painting writing drawing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eating drinking cooking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And occasionally singing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was having a good time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the area unnerved me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to bleakness of the landscape <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was told that they had been<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Many sacrifices in the Black Bog Lands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that many bodies lay in the vicinity of the farm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had asked Kate about the low murmurs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which seemed to populate the night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first she pretended not to have heard anything <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then admitted that she had heard them <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From her earliest years and that in time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would get used to them and accept them <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was staying with Kate Whilst on a field trip We had been together For a number of years And she had invited me to visit The Black Bog Lands Where she had spent her early years We were staying in her parents cottage As part of our Scottish adventure But it had rained without [&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-16294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16294","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=16294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16302,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16294\/revisions\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}