{"id":26658,"date":"2025-05-27T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=26658"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:03:14","slug":"seagulls-of-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/seagulls-of-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you know you know <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t know <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you don&#8217;t know <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memories I have always captured memories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one stands out <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which happened when I was seventeen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a very simple memory <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was standing on the open platform of a bus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the vehicle had to apply its brakes suddenly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was carrying a bottle of milk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which slipped from my grasp <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And fell into the road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It shattered on impact <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating something of a mess <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strangely it was thought that I had fallen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And people ran to my aid <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was obviously unhurt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And remember thinking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How lucky I had been to avoid an accident <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And thankful that I had not dropped the sliced loaf <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which had been purchased earlier along with the milk <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know you know If you don&#8217;t know Then you don&#8217;t know Memories I have always captured memories But one stands out Which happened when I was seventeen It is a very simple memory I was standing on the open platform of a bus When the vehicle had to apply its brakes suddenly I [&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-26658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658","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=26658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26668,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions\/26668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}