{"id":17226,"date":"2023-11-02T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=17226"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:38:21","slug":"the-sinister-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/the-sinister-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sinister Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in Naples recently <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see Napoli win the Serie A title <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many I wore a Napoli football shirt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was accompanied by Linda <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who was the wife of a good friend <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had been born in Naples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now lived in London <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I met her in the city<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was wearing a white top <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God&#8217;s Favourite <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was written in black <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the front of her shirt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was rather striking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And received a number of comments <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early hours <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We went back to our hotels <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I slept with my Napoli shirt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under my pillow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And enjoyed happy dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following morning <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The still hung over Linda <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Went running wearing her white top <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was hit by a moped <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only yards from her hotel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully she was unhurt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from some grazes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But her top was ruined <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So she binned it at the hotel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I purchased a Napoli shirt for her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which she wore on the journey <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back to England the following day <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Naples recently To see Napoli win the Serie A title Like many I wore a Napoli football shirt I was accompanied by Linda Who was the wife of a good friend She had been born in Naples But now lived in London When I met her in the city She was wearing [&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-17226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226","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=17226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}