{"id":29959,"date":"2025-10-31T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=29959"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:56:13","slug":"on-acorn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/on-acorn-street\/","title":{"rendered":"On Acorn Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My poetry although read <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Is read in obscurity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like it that way <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I crave the obscurity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I absolutely abhor the critics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or those who see themselves as critics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never criticised a poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is such a vacant occupation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would not object if it was said <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I was not a poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed it is hard to think of myself as a poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I Dream I Write I Hide <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it feel like <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be a poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I have a green skin or prominent eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not even own a pen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a style because I have no style <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not understand the secrecy of my many inks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a peculiar way to go about ones business <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live alone in a house on Acorn Street with my cat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who has little or no interest in poetry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poetry although read Is read in obscurity I like it that way I crave the obscurity I absolutely abhor the critics Or those who see themselves as critics I have never criticised a poem It is such a vacant occupation I would not object if it was said That I was not a poet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959"}],"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=29959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29964,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}