{"id":19787,"date":"2024-04-03T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:17:07","slug":"blue-love-room-behind-the-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/blue-love-room-behind-the-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Love Room (Behind the Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guys<br><br>I have never been commissioned to write a poem as I would refuse &#8211; I occasionally write poems for weddings\u00a0and the like but obviously I do not expect reward as this is a pleasant occupation<br><br>However about a year ago a dear friend of mine asked me to write a poem about  her affair with a happily married man <br><br>She felt it had bruised her mental wellbeing<br><br>I advised her against it but she felt a vacancy would be filled and in a way she might be able to forgive herself for what had happened<br><br>Apart from her name which I have changed everything else is true as I have visited the Blue Room and yes one can see the cathedral\u00a0and yes there\u00a0is a French watercolour on the wall<br><br>My friends father is indeed a Dean and she has now written two short books about the cathedral\u00a0which have been well received<br><br>I gave my friend this poem some months ago and she cried<br><br>She later said to me that the poem was cathartic which was if I had required a reward\u00a0the reward I would have chosen<br><br>Happily my friend is in a relationship again but not one fraught with hurt &#8211; she feels that she has made her peace with God<br><br><br>Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guys I have never been commissioned to write a poem as I would refuse &#8211; I occasionally write poems for weddings\u00a0and the like but obviously I do not expect reward as this is a pleasant occupation However about a year ago a dear friend of mine asked me to write a poem about her affair [&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-19787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787","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=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19790,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}