{"id":2555,"date":"2016-08-27T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2016-08-27T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T11:13:48","slug":"crossing-the-equator-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/27\/crossing-the-equator-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Equator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sharing a bath with Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira<\/p>\n<p>She was the most intelligent girl in Spain<\/p>\n<p><i>We will be crossing the equator in three hours <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What shall we do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The usual I will chase you and the other crew members around the boat with shaving foam and we will fight with olive oil <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And after? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We will all jump into the sea naked <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But what about the brandy? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It is the only alcohol we have left on board <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And yes we will offer the sea a share of our brandy<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you know what I am going to do? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tell me <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I am going to do nothing <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Feral Feather Flowers White <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What did you say?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Feral Feather Flowers White <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What does that mean? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Such as Esso Red and Esso White <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Exactly <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why are we sharing this bath? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To save water<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Water is scarce in the summer <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We have achieved our objective <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was an abstract objective <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>How do you know that we have saved water?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because if we took baths separately we would use twice the amount of water <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That would be true if there was enough water for two baths <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please would you get out of the bath for a moment <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira climbed out of our bath and stood by the door<\/p>\n<p><i>I am in the bath alone do you agree?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Then am I saving water?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because up to a few seconds ago I was sharing it with you <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please return to the bath <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira returned to the bath<\/p>\n<p><i>We have not saved water you know<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why do you say that? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because of the wasted water on the floor<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Feral Feather Flowers White <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you disagree with me?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Esso Red and Esso White<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My vacancy is my argument <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sharing a bath with Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira She was the most intelligent girl in Spain We will be crossing the equator in three hours What shall we do? The usual I will chase you and the other crew members around the boat with shaving foam and we will fight with olive oil And [&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\/2555"}],"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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}