{"id":27184,"date":"2025-06-17T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=27184"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:31:27","slug":"the-archery-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/the-archery-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archery Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not excel at many things <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I do have a very accurate eye <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was invited to an archery school <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set deep within the southern hills <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It  was there that I met Barbara Briggs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whose talent was legendary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had been asked to represent her country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But declined as her first love was music <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We soon became lovers away from the fields <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This smoothed her direction and she later thawed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We travelled to Japan to shoot for our country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I received a silver medal and Barbara took gold <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She retired soon after and now coaches at the school <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>Jackie Lover Briggs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not excel at many things But I do have a very accurate eye And was invited to an archery school Set deep within the southern hills It was there that I met Barbara Briggs Whose talent was legendary She had been asked to represent her country But declined as her first love was [&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-27184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184","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=27184"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27203,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184\/revisions\/27203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}