{"id":29325,"date":"2025-10-05T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=29325"},"modified":"2025-10-05T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:39:41","slug":"playing-chess-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/playing-chess-on-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Chess on Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before my breakdown I was a chess champion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I became unwell and could not sleep <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was institutionalised for a while <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As suicidal tendencies were soon noted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My nurse was named Venus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She took great care of me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We became close <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And grew even closer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we shared a shower <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she had a chessboard tattooed on her back <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea was that although I suffered badly from insomnia <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I could play chess with grand masters in her dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am now married to Venus and her wonderful tattoo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And am fast becoming the player that I once was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before my breakdown I was a chess champion And then I became unwell and could not sleep I was institutionalised for a while As suicidal tendencies were soon noted My nurse was named Venus She took great care of me We became close And grew even closer When we shared a shower As she had [&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-29325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29325","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=29325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29332,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29325\/revisions\/29332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}