{"id":25213,"date":"2025-03-11T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=25213"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:53:59","slug":"the-pleasure-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-pleasure-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is an air of defeated exhaustion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lives well lived but not lived at all&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are opening lines&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of a poem that Joye had written&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was impressed but jealous of her pen&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a cool blonde&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who always&nbsp;seems to have a hint&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of a smile ready to break her lips&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She owns a glass lady&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is kept on a high shelf&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A present from an admirer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now long dead&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still have his hypodermic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sealed in a glass jar&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have named it Colin Barrett&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After one of my teachers&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an air of defeated exhaustion&nbsp; Lives well lived but not lived at all&nbsp; These are opening lines&nbsp; Of a poem that Joye had written&nbsp; I was impressed but jealous of her pen&nbsp; She is a cool blonde&nbsp; Who always&nbsp;seems to have a hint&nbsp; Of a smile ready to break her lips&nbsp; She owns [&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-25213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213","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=25213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25214,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213\/revisions\/25214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}