{"id":27710,"date":"2025-07-10T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=27710"},"modified":"2025-07-10T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:29:45","slug":"on-the-terrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/on-the-terrace\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oli whose real name was Olivia <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had popped into town <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she was picking up a book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Little did I know <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That she was also going to surprise me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a book as I had been kind to her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memories of My Melancholy Whores <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had been written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had read many of his books <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had an interesting cover <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was at once sepia colourful and erotic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman is almost hidden in the shadows <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although her breasts are subtly exposed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She appears to be looking down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a very moody photograph <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the bleakness is broken <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the invasion of colourful flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They should not have been placed there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the combination works very well <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oli is sitting next to me on the terrace  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has changed from her city clothes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And is wearing a white cotton dress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With pale blue cornflowers ghosted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into its almost hidden patterns <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only read during afternoons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my friend is well into her book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day feels quite perfect <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer Memories <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter Dreams <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oli whose real name was Olivia Had popped into town As she was picking up a book Little did I know That she was also going to surprise me With a book as I had been kind to her Memories of My Melancholy Whores Had been written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I had read many [&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-27710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710","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=27710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27716,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710\/revisions\/27716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}