{"id":2587,"date":"2016-09-01T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:13:39","slug":"the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over forty years ago I sat on this lawn in front of the great cathedral as part of a church party<\/p>\n<p>I must confess I was bored<\/p>\n<p>We had been paired off and I was sitting with a girl called Julie Hawn<\/p>\n<p>She shared her sandwiches with me<\/p>\n<p>Cheese and tomato<\/p>\n<p>I explained to her how the cathedral had been built as she shared my lemonade<\/p>\n<p>We were joined by three choirboys wearing silver shoes<\/p>\n<p>Who shared the remainder of our picnic<\/p>\n<p>Today that area of the lawn is empty save for a few late summer leaves<\/p>\n<p>I sit where I last sat<\/p>\n<p>The grass is not damp as I thought it might be and is soft to the touch<\/p>\n<p>I look at the mighty tower and wonder how many people are looking at it<\/p>\n<p>I share the moment with them<\/p>\n<p>My wife joins me as my school friend had many years previously<\/p>\n<p>We share sandwiches<\/p>\n<p>Cheese and tomato<\/p>\n<p>But there is no lemonade<\/p>\n<p>Coffee is a poor substitute<\/p>\n<p>At exactly seven minutes past four we are joined by three choirboys wearing silver shoes<\/p>\n<p>They share our picnic<\/p>\n<p>I explain to them how the cathedral was constructed<\/p>\n<p>This interests them<\/p>\n<p>Later they leave in a spaceship<\/p>\n<p>Which had been hovering above the cathedral for many days<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Salisbury August 31<sup>st<\/sup> 2016 \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over forty years ago I sat on this lawn in front of the great cathedral as part of a church party I must confess I was bored We had been paired off and I was sitting with a girl called Julie Hawn She shared her sandwiches with me Cheese and tomato I explained to her [&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\/2587"}],"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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}