{"id":30532,"date":"2025-11-27T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=30532"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:38:32","slug":"the-haunted-bookstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/the-haunted-bookstall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Station Bookstall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Occasionally I pass through the station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where Butterfield&#8217;s used to have a bookstall <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst still standing its function has now radically changed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is no longer a retail unit situated on platform three <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a place where redundant equipment is often stored <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep in history and thousands of trains into my past <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met a fellow poet there who influences me to this day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her name was Marjory Irene and she was the owners daughter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hit it off straight away and often stayed in the bookstall <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until the station closed discussing poetry and writing in general <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marjory and I were only together for six months before we parted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We both became successful poets and have published many books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She now lives in the USA having married her senior professor <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas I live in Richmond with my sister and our girlfriend Sephine <br><br><br>Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I pass through the station Where Butterfield&#8217;s used to have a bookstall Whilst still standing its function has now radically changed It is no longer a retail unit situated on platform three But a place where redundant equipment is often stored Deep in history and thousands of trains into my past I met a [&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-30532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532","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=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30539,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions\/30539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}