{"id":29418,"date":"2025-10-09T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=29418"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:58:14","slug":"the-puddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/the-puddle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puddle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have discovered an unusual fact <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is that Martin Marrin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Walter Walter Raleigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you heard the story <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the puddle and Queen Elizabeth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is said to have placed his cloak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Over a puddle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For the Queen to walk over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an act of chivalry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To gain her great favour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was not widely reported <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that Elizabeth who was very vain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Searched for her reflection in the puddle <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But saw a portrait of Jeanne H\u00e9buterne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth was a plain woman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Jeanne was very beautiful <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was not well received and Walter Walter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was suspended from court <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was however allowed to keep a cat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which he named in honour of the Queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(It was my companion at that most miserable time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered an unusual fact What is that Martin Marrin Sir Walter Walter Raleigh Have you heard the story Of the puddle and Queen Elizabeth No He is said to have placed his cloak Over a puddle For the Queen to walk over It was an act of chivalry To gain her great favour [&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-29418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418","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=29418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29422,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418\/revisions\/29422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}