{"id":2356,"date":"2016-06-05T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2016-06-05T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:23:59","slug":"the-corinth-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/05\/the-corinth-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corinth Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were visiting the Corinth Canal<\/p>\n<p>When the accident happened<\/p>\n<p>A small bird no bigger than a wren<\/p>\n<p>Flew blindly into the rock face<\/p>\n<p>And died instantly<\/p>\n<p>Cora wept<\/p>\n<p>And so did some other tourists<\/p>\n<p>Especially those from Italy<\/p>\n<p>And the USA<\/p>\n<p>After some difficulty I located<\/p>\n<p>The body of the unfortunate bird<\/p>\n<p>And buried it beneath a bush<\/p>\n<p>With a few lines of Sappho read<\/p>\n<p>To accompany it on its journey<\/p>\n<p>You may ask why I used her poetry<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple<\/p>\n<p>As the only books of poetry<\/p>\n<p>That are found near the canal<\/p>\n<p>Are by this feminine poet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were visiting the Corinth Canal When the accident happened A small bird no bigger than a wren Flew blindly into the rock face And died instantly Cora wept And so did some other tourists Especially those from Italy And the USA After some difficulty I located The body of the unfortunate bird And buried [&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\/2356"}],"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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}