{"id":24856,"date":"2025-02-22T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=24856"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:56:00","slug":"tears-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/tears-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a confession to make <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confession is that I cried <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of a recent movie <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I disguised it as an asthma attack <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the first time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> That I had cried in a cinema <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since watching the final scenes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie that made me cry just a few days ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was The Brutalist which hit me like an express train <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the final line that breached my defences <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It torpedoed me and hit the hidden spine of my art <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so honoured to be able to write poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it comes with a certain amount of pain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally I can handle this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without too much fuss <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I had left a light showing that evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And took a direct hit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wounds will heal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the scars will remain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession to make The confession is that I cried At the end of a recent movie I disguised it as an asthma attack This was the first time That I had cried in a cinema Since watching the final scenes Of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The movie that made me cry just [&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-24856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856","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=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24869,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}