{"id":18418,"date":"2024-01-10T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:41:40","slug":"cold-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/cold-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in this city no one i see is conscious <br>one is worse off than the next <br>frenzied and insane <br><br>Once a year I spend <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A night on the streets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I choose a frozen night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with only my coat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrapped around me for warmth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sit in doorways begging for alms <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When this happens in exchange <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I give my benefactor a small card <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a poem or a quote <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by Rumi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typed in mauve ink <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings a variety of responses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I am hugged even kissed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my motive is never questioned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings me a great happiness <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">come on and be love&#8217;s willing slave<br>for love&#8217;s slavery will save you <br>forsake the slavery of this world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in this city no one i see is conscious one is worse off than the next frenzied and insane Once a year I spend A night on the streets I choose a frozen night And with only my coat Wrapped around me for warmth I sit in doorways begging for alms When this happens in [&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-18418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418","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=18418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18420,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions\/18420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}