{"id":27434,"date":"2025-06-28T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=27434"},"modified":"2025-06-28T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:05:53","slug":"joe-is-travelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/joe-is-travelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe is Travelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alain-Fournier, an anglophile spent the summer of 1905 working at the wallpaper company in West London <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is it is said his novel\u2019s key scene was inspired by the social club\u2019s annual fete<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this is true then Gatsby\u2019s legendary 20s parties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Might have originated during an employees treat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In not very glamorous Chiswick<br><br><br>Yvonne <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might be interested in this article <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I lifted from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guardian <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a connection with this company <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for just under two years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was employed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In their West London factory <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It did not end happily <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I was dismissed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For poor attendance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although this was a distasteful event <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I received a sum of eight pounds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I spent almost immediately <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a rather nice violin  <br><br><br>In the greater shape of things <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is only a thin link to Alain-Fournier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a link nonetheless <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I am very proud of this link <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But still cannot play the violin <br><br><br><br>Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain-Fournier, an anglophile spent the summer of 1905 working at the wallpaper company in West London It is it is said his novel\u2019s key scene was inspired by the social club\u2019s annual fete If this is true then Gatsby\u2019s legendary 20s parties Might have originated during an employees treat In not very glamorous Chiswick Yvonne [&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-27434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434","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=27434"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27444,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions\/27444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}