{"id":20790,"date":"2024-05-28T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20790"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:59:27","slug":"the-blue-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/the-blue-lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often stay with Ingrid in Northern Germany <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are both artists but very different <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I follow the American schools of colour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Ingrid is a landscape artist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has a small studio near the harbour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which commands towering views <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the strange blue lighthouse <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual lighthouse is not blue <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was painted black some years ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I cannot find out the reason why <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something to do with the seabirds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a very tall almost anorexic looking lighthouse <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was built in the period following the war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the original structure was destroyed   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The odd thing about this lighthouse <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is its very inhibited illumination <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which seems to encourage the night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ingrid has told me that it has a specialised beam <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is more practical for distant ships <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its light unlike conventional lighthouses is blue <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which gives it an eerie almost ghost like appearance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often stay with Ingrid in Northern Germany We are both artists but very different I follow the American schools of colour Whereas Ingrid is a landscape artist She has a small studio near the harbour Which commands towering views Of the strange blue lighthouse The actual lighthouse is not blue It was painted black [&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-20790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790","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=20790"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}