{"id":20854,"date":"2024-05-31T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=20854"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:21:17","slug":"capricorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/capricorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Capricorn(e)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently writing an ode to the countryside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Stephen Duck <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(a name I share with another poet) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are both from Wiltshire <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born In Bedwyn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> (my heaven on earth) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the other Stephen was born in Charlton <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His wife Mary rests in the churchyard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am also married to a country maid named Capricorn(e)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is the inspiration behind much of my poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such is her innocence and natural beauty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our cottage lies between the canal and the railway <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is very remote but seems quite busy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The noise of the trains and the wanderers passing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the towpath shape our rural days <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(especially during the long summer months) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently engaged in repairing a fence damaged <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a cow estranged from a neighbouring meadow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> My beautiful wife is copying my poems for printing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my publisher is planning a visit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As soon as the cornfields ripen and glow <\/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 am currently writing an ode to the countryside My name is Stephen Duck (a name I share with another poet) We are both from Wiltshire I was born In Bedwyn (my heaven on earth) And the other Stephen was born in Charlton His wife Mary rests in the churchyard I am also married to [&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-20854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854","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=20854"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20871,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions\/20871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}