{"id":20819,"date":"2024-05-29T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20819"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T08:32:51","slug":"20819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/20819\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibbutz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was very young <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew and Rachel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took me to a kibbutz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my stay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can remember walking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quite long distances <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the hot sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I was very strong <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a boy of my age <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I have nothing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But happy memories <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of my summer there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I later lost contact <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Andrew and Rachel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was until a week ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When l by chance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bumped into Rachel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside South Ken Tube Station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had not changed greatly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although she and Andrew <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were by now divorced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We shared a coffee <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And chatted about old times <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel now lives in Berlin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And works as a translator <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We exchanged addresses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that we might keep in contact <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was as we were crossing the road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I asked  about the location<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of our happy kibbutz  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel looked up at the sky <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if searching for an answer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not sure Tim Tim <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not that important <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of our visit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I knew was that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was somewhere in Israel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was very young Andrew and Rachel Took me to a kibbutz During my stay I can remember walking Quite long distances Under the hot sun But I was very strong For a boy of my age And I have nothing But happy memories Of my summer there I later lost contact With Andrew [&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-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","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=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20830,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions\/20830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}