{"id":28026,"date":"2025-07-29T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=28026"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:57:26","slug":"grasshopper-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/grasshopper-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was watching a tiny creature drowning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its strength was slowly fading <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A life ebbing away in a puddle no bigger <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than a dinner plate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I rescued  it within seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which pleased me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I am a decent person <br><br><br>Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet this decent person was once a soldier <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fighting in a war that was slowly eating itself <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I  had killed a number of men<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one remains in my dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had mined an important supply bridge <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were few survivors such was our precision <br><br><br>Three<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched an injured soldier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Slowly drowning in front of me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made no attempt to rescue him  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike the wretched creature <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I had just rescued <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such was my decaying lust <br><br><br>Four <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One I was watching a tiny creature drowning Its strength was slowly fading A life ebbing away in a puddle no bigger Than a dinner plate I rescued it within seconds Which pleased me As I am a decent person Two Yet this decent person was once a soldier Fighting in a war that 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-28026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026","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=28026"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28038,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026\/revisions\/28038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}