{"id":22828,"date":"2024-08-24T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2024-08-24T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:36:55","slug":"decay-of-the-golden-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/decay-of-the-golden-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Decay of the Golden Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In years unpolluted by malignant thought<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Beautiful buildings were created for us all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cinema&#8217;s are a good example <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When each pleasure place was better than the last <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the small people took over <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cinema&#8217;s were repurposed or destroyed altogether <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my hometown of Uxbridge <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a lavish Odeon cinema <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built between the wars <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When inside you were transported <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into another world of lyrical shapes and subtle colours <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an experience in itself <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty years ago this cinema was totally destroyed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weak and greedy councils manned by corrupted ants <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with the disgusting developers were to blame <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never forgiven them for this vandalism <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jill and I often travel around this decaying country of ours <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And see this repeated time and time again <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all of our failing cities and towns<br><br><br><br>From The Shame of England by  Charles Crithome Stuart <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In years unpolluted by malignant thought Beautiful buildings were created for us all Cinema&#8217;s are a good example When each pleasure place was better than the last And then the small people took over Cinema&#8217;s were repurposed or destroyed altogether In my hometown of Uxbridge We had a lavish Odeon cinema Built between the wars [&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-22828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828","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=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22834,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions\/22834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}