{"id":1795,"date":"2015-08-30T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2015-08-30T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T16:01:16","slug":"only-association-keeps-me-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/30\/only-association-keeps-me-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Association Keeps Me Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Only Association Keeps Me Here <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I bathed in the sea<\/p>\n<p>The waters were warm<\/p>\n<p>The sea is often like this in late August<\/p>\n<p>As I dried myself on the beach<\/p>\n<p>I considered the construction of a sea wall<\/p>\n<p>So that the benign temperatures could be captured<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>A Whitewashed Wall <\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the wall of my room carved carelessly into the whitewash<\/p>\n<p>There is a traditional rhyme<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Who names us SANK <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And not our SINK <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Is foreigner art foe <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>His ship is to be engaged <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And after bloody battle <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>SUNK <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No prisoners to be taken <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The rhyme is weary and of little merit but I find it strangely comforting<\/p>\n<p>It is there when I retire<br \/>\nIt watches me sleep<br \/>\nIt is there when I wake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only Association Keeps Me Here Yesterday I bathed in the sea The waters were warm The sea is often like this in late August As I dried myself on the beach I considered the construction of a sea wall So that the benign temperatures could be captured &nbsp; A Whitewashed Wall On the wall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"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=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}