{"id":20841,"date":"2024-05-29T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:56:38","slug":"travels-with-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/travels-with-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels with Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have owned a colourful plastic mug <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Named Monica for many years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is named after the character in Friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Monica has travelled all around Europe with me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tend to use her as my travelling water mug <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the event of  a thirst during the night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are great friends <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she until recently <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had kept a secret from me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was that she corresponded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the poet Phillip Larkin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years before we met <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being a poet myself this has fascinated me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we often chat about her correspondence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When travelling on long distance trains <\/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 have owned a colourful plastic mug Named Monica for many years She is named after the character in Friends Monica has travelled all around Europe with me I tend to use her as my travelling water mug In the event of a thirst during the night We are great friends But she until recently [&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-20841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841","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=20841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20847,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions\/20847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}