{"id":1898,"date":"2015-11-09T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:18:27","slug":"the-nuns-of-nunbourci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/09\/the-nuns-of-nunbourci\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nuns of Nunbourci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Served hot meals<\/p>\n<p>To their visitors<\/p>\n<p>And provided comfortable beds<\/p>\n<p>In their cells<\/p>\n<p>They tended their gardens with a feminine authority<\/p>\n<p>That hid their labours without effort<\/p>\n<p>Although young in years many of the nuns looked older<\/p>\n<p>Worn out by the hot Italian sun<\/p>\n<p>They prayed five times a day<\/p>\n<p>And six times on the Sabbath<\/p>\n<p>I have fond memories of my times at Nunbourchi<\/p>\n<p>But they are only memories<\/p>\n<p>As the convent no longer exists<\/p>\n<p>It was destroyed during the latter stages of World War Two<\/p>\n<p>When I returned to the convent last year<\/p>\n<p>I found as expected only rubble<\/p>\n<p>But the gardens were still there<\/p>\n<p>And were being looked after<\/p>\n<p>By the remaining nuns<\/p>\n<p>Who now lived in the village<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Robert Summers (1948) <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Served hot meals To their visitors And provided comfortable beds In their cells They tended their gardens with a feminine authority That hid their labours without effort Although young in years many of the nuns looked older Worn out by the hot Italian sun They prayed five times a day And six times on the [&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\/1898"}],"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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}