{"id":26605,"date":"2025-05-24T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2025-05-24T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:14:26","slug":"autobiography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/autobiography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was conceived in pleasure <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a small cottage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rented for a week <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep in the flat lands of Kent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My parents were students <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late of their college rooms <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This changed their lives <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it made little difference to me  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a bumpy road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much improved by their parents <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in time they both became teachers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am revisiting this ancient landscape <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which has changed little since my youth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cottage of my parents sin still stands <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half hidden next to the rough path<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That leads to the village church <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is still rented out for short let holidays <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing has changed  but everything is changing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generations once rooted now pass like clouds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only the inns remain constant although in decline<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shops long gone are now private dwellings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their histories now hanging unanchored in time <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was conceived in pleasure In a small cottage Rented for a week Deep in the flat lands of Kent My parents were students Late of their college rooms This changed their lives Although it made little difference to me It was a bumpy road Much improved by their parents And in time they both [&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-26605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605","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=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26610,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}