{"id":28744,"date":"2025-09-07T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=28744"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:22:04","slug":"a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently I found a poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I had written at High School <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was aged about twelve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The previous month <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had stolen and lost <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A worthless prayer book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For which I was later punished <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had left it carelessly on a beach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it was swept out by the tide <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was autumn and I was tied to a post <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was gagged so tightly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> That my mouth bled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The garth was full of sweet smells <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My eyes were tight with tears <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I was unable to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The stunning clouds of the dak <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet I sensed her beauty <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she walked past my garden gate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards the beach using the steep sandy path <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I found a poem That I had written at High School I was aged about twelve The previous month I had stolen and lost A worthless prayer book For which I was later punished I had left it carelessly on a beach And it was swept out by the tide It was autumn and [&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-28744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744","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=28744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28752,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744\/revisions\/28752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}