{"id":22351,"date":"2024-08-05T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=22351"},"modified":"2024-08-05T03:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T02:13:23","slug":"the-hitchiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/the-hitchiker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchiker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a War Correspondent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In world that has run out of wars <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year I picked up a hitchiker <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who said that she had been mugged <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I ever found out about her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was that her name was Anne <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that she was from Le Mans <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gave her some money <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enable her to fly back to France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago I was on the same road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About an hour outside of Athens <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I met the same girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time she said her name was Piranesi <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she was Paris born and bred <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although she considered me familiar <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She did not recognise me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until I told her who I was <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the circumstances <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of our previous meeting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I congratulated her on her scam <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we promised to meet again in Brno  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a War Correspondent In world that has run out of wars Last year I picked up a hitchiker Who said that she had been mugged All I ever found out about her Was that her name was Anne And that she was from Le Mans I gave her some money To enable her [&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-22351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351","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=22351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22364,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351\/revisions\/22364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}