{"id":25087,"date":"2025-03-05T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:45:38","slug":"the-new-brighton-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/the-new-brighton-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Brighton Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There used to be a football team here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Brighton Tower FC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They no longer have fixtures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their plans turned to dust  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing now remains <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pregnant at sixteen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My younger brother <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Died young of a wasting disease <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That might have been curable given time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I lied on my CV <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decay Decay Decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is nothing but decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He used to turn tricks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the bushes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That now cover the site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The river like the area <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is now polluted black <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beatles once played  here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the going was good <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before they too faded into history <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing now remains <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from the decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a football team here New Brighton Tower FC They no longer have fixtures Their plans turned to dust Nothing now remains Pregnant at sixteen My younger brother Died young of a wasting disease That might have been curable given time I lied on my CV Decay Decay Decay There is nothing [&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-25087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087","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=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25092,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions\/25092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}