{"id":26579,"date":"2025-05-22T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=26579"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:04:52","slug":"black-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/black-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently serving in a submarine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a hazardous occupation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And before each voyage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am gifted a book of poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By my loving sisters Anne and Jayne <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My most recent gift was <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Works of Tennyson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where inside I found the following dedication <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presented to David Willie <br>On his 8th Birthday <br>Nov 27th 1895<br>By his dear Dada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This tells me that young David<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was born in the same year <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Rupert Brooke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder what happened <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To this poetry loving boy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet never even in his wildest dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would he have imagined <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That his humble birthday gift <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would now be my only companion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep under these dark and mysterious seas <\/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\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently serving in a submarine It is a hazardous occupation And before each voyage I am gifted a book of poetry By my loving sisters Anne and Jayne My most recent gift was The Works of Tennyson Where inside I found the following dedication Presented to David Willie On his 8th Birthday Nov [&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-26579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579","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=26579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26587,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579\/revisions\/26587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}