{"id":23064,"date":"2024-09-02T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=23064"},"modified":"2024-09-02T22:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:41:54","slug":"my-summer-with-albine-mon-ete-avec-albine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/my-summer-with-albine-mon-ete-avec-albine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Summer with Albine \/ Mon \u00e9t\u00e9 avec Albine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">I have always been attracted to country girls<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Possibly because I was a country lad and understood country ways \n\nThere is something simple pale and fresh about them \n\nWhen I was a schoolboy I often swam quite naked \n\nWith many of the girls from my village including my sister\n\nIt was quite a natural thing to do on hot summer days and totally without guilt \n\nI add that I was not the only boy within this pastoral\n\nShortly after I turned fourteen I received La Faute de l'Abb\u00e9 Mouret \n\nFrom one of my mothers dottier friends \n\nMy sister Josephine also received a copy of the Zola novel \n\nIt was my first real introduction to Zola \n\nAnd it changed my perspectives totally \n\nI was already writing poetry \n\nBut things slowly began to change\n\nI saw the tragedy of life\n\nIn the novel Albine a simple country girl \n\nTakes her own life by poisoning herself \n\nWithin the fumes of innocent flowers \n\nI was in love with Albine \n\nAnd hated the young priest Serge Mouret \n\nFor what he had done to this innocent whimsical creature \n\nEven whilst enjoying our swims I began to think about \n\nWhat lay beneath the surface of our shallow meandering river \n\nThe black currents so ready to take your life \n\nWithin a year I had written Chrysalis\n\nWhich was later lost \n\n(sadly only parts remain in my memory)\n\nI had arrived \n\nJoe was beginning his journey \n\nI am still travelling even as I write this memory  \n\nAlthough she is busy I have asked Josie \n\nTo share her thoughts about this important period of our lives \n\nI do hope that she finds time to do so \n\n\n\n\nJoe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been attracted to country girls Possibly because I was a country lad and understood country ways There is something simple pale and fresh about them When I was a schoolboy I often swam quite naked With many of the girls from my village including my sister It was quite a natural thing [&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-23064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064","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=23064"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23078,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064\/revisions\/23078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}