{"id":17396,"date":"2023-11-09T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:47:53","slug":"my-town-is-disposable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/my-town-is-disposable\/","title":{"rendered":"My Town is Disposable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live in a kitchen sink town <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has not changed much since I was a kid <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shops are uniform and very bleak <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even on the warmest of summer days <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Malcolm X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was named after the greengrocer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he was the nicest man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That my late mother ever knew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sadly died when I was eleven <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When his motorbike spun off of the road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Near the summit of Becket X <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His family business is now a betting shop <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frequented by those with non disposable incomes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As unlikely as it may sound <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have made something of myself <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I am a very talented artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live far from this town of my birth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is still firmly resident in my head <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It haunts me so much that I have named <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My lovely Cotswold residence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manhattan Transfer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is the name of this awful town <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a kitchen sink town It has not changed much since I was a kid The shops are uniform and very bleak Even on the warmest of summer days My name is Malcolm X I was named after the greengrocer As he was the nicest man That my late mother ever knew He [&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-17396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396","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=17396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions\/17400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}