{"id":2706,"date":"2016-10-19T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:29:03","slug":"the-changing-light-of-marlborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/the-changing-light-of-marlborough\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Light of Marlborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the slender spiders web moved in the gentle breeze<\/p>\n<p>Two Americans stood beneath it<\/p>\n<p><i>For it was constructed high \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And admired the intricate workmanship of the spider<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>They had tried to buy a watercolour <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In a nearby shop <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But as they pondered <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was stolen from them <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A fly is trapped within the web<\/p>\n<p>And the visitors ask the insect<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is aware of its own mortality<\/p>\n<p>The fly does not answer<\/p>\n<p>As it is enjoying the late afternoon light<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The creature I am told died in ecstasy a few hours later<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The spider is not guarding its web<\/p>\n<p>It has left Marlborough for good<\/p>\n<p>There was no reason for its departure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Some say that it never existed in the first place <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And that its web was a work of fiction <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the slender spiders web moved in the gentle breeze Two Americans stood beneath it For it was constructed high \u00a0 And admired the intricate workmanship of the spider &nbsp; They had tried to buy a watercolour In a nearby shop But as they pondered It was stolen from them \u00a0 A fly is trapped [&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\/2706"}],"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=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}