{"id":17303,"date":"2023-11-05T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T07:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=17303"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T14:55:48","slug":"southern-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/southern-gothic\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel that the large houses look sinister  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even under the bright sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people here are very welcoming <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As long as you are passing through <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although lyrical a distinct sense of menace <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can still can be felt under the surface <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Civil War was never lost <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recession was the fault of others  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is only a hundred years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since they lynched niggers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For imagined crimes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your great grandfather <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you look very closely <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can still be seen in those grainy photographs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women are different down here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some are fading before they reach womanhood <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas others sit in the failing fields <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regretting the dust and thinking of gold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small schoolhouses always welcome Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if he was a local boy born of generations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the vacancy of the unseen winds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The slight windmills stand alone hardly moving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I have always considered this confusing wilderness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be the last resting place of poets <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diary Notes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June &#8211; August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that the large houses look sinister Even under the bright sun The people here are very welcoming As long as you are passing through Although lyrical a distinct sense of menace Can still can be felt under the surface The Civil War was never lost The recession was the fault of others It [&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-17303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303","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=17303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17309,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions\/17309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}