{"id":16808,"date":"2023-10-13T21:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:38:32","slug":"the-soft-parameters-of-michael-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/the-soft-parameters-of-michael-k\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soft Parameters of Michael K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I lived in a squat on the Coventry Road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to share Michael&#8217;s sister <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With all the others in the house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was not a sexual arrangement <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we only exchanged charcoal sketches <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of each other sleeping in our central beds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kitty T was by far the best artist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although she was partially blind <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I was the poorest by a mile <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I chose to hang fairy lights <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the central heating radiators <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilith the Argentinian girl said very little <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she struggled with our language <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She smiled a lot and was considered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cement of the house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deadpan Kate visited occasionally <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she was writing a book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soft Parameters of Michael K <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donna Maria Donna Maria Donna Maria <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in a squat on the Coventry Road I used to share Michael&#8217;s sister With all the others in the house This was not a sexual arrangement As we only exchanged charcoal sketches Of each other sleeping in our central beds Kitty T was by far the best artist Although she was partially [&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-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","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=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16813,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions\/16813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}