{"id":29621,"date":"2025-10-17T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=29621"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:01:34","slug":"the-executioners-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/the-executioners-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Executioners Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can remember the allotments next to the tracks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fathers of fathers and their honest sons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managed our beautiful stations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which were always clean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the halts were visited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And flowers were planted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women were generally safer travelling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attacks were rare and the punishments severe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was brought up next to this station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The railways were in my blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you have spoilt it for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a girl in hospital because of you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is likely to recover but that is not the point<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You should have stayed in your black sewer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was your big mistake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you are burnt alive in this tired little hut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will castrate you with my fathers hunting knife<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name if that is all you want is Linda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rot in Hell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You black piece of shit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember the allotments next to the tracks The fathers of fathers and their honest sons Managed our beautiful stations Which were always clean Even the halts were visited And flowers were planted Women were generally safer travelling Attacks were rare and the punishments severe I was brought up next to this station The [&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-29621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29621","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=29621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29751,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29621\/revisions\/29751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}