{"id":23876,"date":"2024-10-13T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2024-10-13T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T21:03:27","slug":"retro-patterns-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/retro-patterns-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Patterns in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black &amp; Blue is a bar in Richmond <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often meet friends there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the only bar that I have visited <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has paintings of coloured wellingtons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanging on its white washed walls   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bar was also the place <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where Sephine had given me a copy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez&#8217;s lost novel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until August which had just been published <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was her first gift which I greatly appreciated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not as special as the gift she had given me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During our stay at the Hotel Splendid <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can remember her lying next to me post coital&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was admiring the contours of her lower back <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had surprised me by confessing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That she was a virgin waiting for the right man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously I was the right man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had expressed a desire to own <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the wellington paintings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I agreed a price with the owner of the bar <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not sure what Marquez <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would have made of this theatre <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black &amp; Blue is a bar in Richmond I often meet friends there It was the only bar that I have visited That has paintings of coloured wellingtons Hanging on its white washed walls The bar was also the place Where Sephine had given me a copy Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez&#8217;s lost novel Until August [&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-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","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=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23889,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}