{"id":18079,"date":"2023-12-17T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2023-12-17T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T05:01:47","slug":"golden-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/golden-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dover South Wind <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was cooling as the day faded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was almost dark <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was waiting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a few others <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the express train to pass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then in the bleak December air <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I heard the locomotive in the distance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working hard as it climbed the slim gradient <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards this almost silent station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Golden Arrow then appeared <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the darkness of the cutting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It passed me in an instant screaming loudly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then vanished into the vacancy of the night<br><br><br>I wrote this poem shortly afterwards <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I gathered my thoughts <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the only record of my visit<br><br><br><br>The Golden Arrow passed through <br>Walmer Railway Station in Kent<br>On the evening of the sixteenth of December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dover South Wind Was cooling as the day faded It was almost dark I was waiting With a few others For the express train to pass And then in the bleak December air I heard the locomotive in the distance Working hard as it climbed the slim gradient Towards this almost silent station The [&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-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","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=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}