{"id":20441,"date":"2024-05-11T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20441"},"modified":"2024-05-11T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T09:30:46","slug":"love-letters-of-a-portuguese-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/love-letters-of-a-portuguese-nun\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We travelled widely for over a year <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And felt comfortable with each other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although we are identical in many ways <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We just blended in or so we thought <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might have remained like this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never a destination only a journey <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then our father was drowned at sea <br><br><br>We felt like we had been punished  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And separated in our guilt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remained in Portugal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance was the only answer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the rebound I met another teacher <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We lived together until she returned to Brazil <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These were our lost years <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled widely for over a year And felt comfortable with each other Although we are identical in many ways We just blended in or so we thought It might have remained like this Never a destination only a journey And then our father was drowned at sea We felt like we had been punished [&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-20441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441","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=20441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20444,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions\/20444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}