{"id":2266,"date":"2016-04-22T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2016-04-22T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:56:10","slug":"the-hit-man-and-the-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/the-hit-man-and-the-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hit Man and the Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was dying<\/p>\n<p>He knew that he was dying<\/p>\n<p>The crowd that had gathered around him<\/p>\n<p>Knew that he was dying<\/p>\n<p>Two bullets had entered his lung<\/p>\n<p>He was drowning slowly in his own blood<\/p>\n<p>As he lay on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>He saw an angel<\/p>\n<p>With a message from God<\/p>\n<p>God forgives you<\/p>\n<p>God forgives all his children<\/p>\n<p>The angel bathed the sweat<\/p>\n<p>That had formed on his face<\/p>\n<p><i>Just keep it out of my eyes <\/i><\/p>\n<p>He asked<\/p>\n<p><i>As I want to see the road to Heaven <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Deep in the night sky above Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Michael saw a light<\/p>\n<p>It was heading slowly towards him<\/p>\n<p><i>But what of my sins? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>They have been forgiven <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have killed many men <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And they have forgiven you <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>They await you in Heaven <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The column of light reached Michael<\/p>\n<p>And the angel lifted him into her arms<\/p>\n<p>And they were taken by the light<\/p>\n<p>Upwards towards Heaven<\/p>\n<p><i>Gangway please move madam <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The paramedics are here <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Can you not see he is already dead? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The police began to disperse the crowds<\/p>\n<p>And the son of one of his many victims<\/p>\n<p>Closed Michael\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n<p>And covered him with a police blanket<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was dying He knew that he was dying The crowd that had gathered around him Knew that he was dying Two bullets had entered his lung He was drowning slowly in his own blood As he lay on the sidewalk He saw an angel With a message from God God forgives you God forgives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266"}],"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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}