{"id":20831,"date":"2024-05-29T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2024-05-29T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:21:56","slug":"the-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/the-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was standing quite naked on my balcony <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A ship was drifting out of the harbour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wondered if any of the crew had seen me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annie of the Blue Ridge Apartments <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smoking a cigarette and enjoying the sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A car drew up in front of the apartments <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sabine looked up and gave me a shallow wave <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My lover had arrived in her maroon suit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew that she was still angry with me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a knock at the door <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did you know that it was me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw your car in my parking space <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She slapped my face <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I slapped her face a little harder <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then kissed my lover <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smudging her lipstick <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seemed to undress her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though I was naked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> And she was dressed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I celebrated my victory <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By pouring Sabine a gin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then returned to the balcony <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where I arranged our wicker chairs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was standing quite naked on my balcony A ship was drifting out of the harbour I wondered if any of the crew had seen me Annie of the Blue Ridge Apartments Smoking a cigarette and enjoying the sun A car drew up in front of the apartments Sabine looked up and gave me a [&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-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","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=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20835,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}