{"id":30744,"date":"2025-12-07T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=30744"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:30:55","slug":"black-cloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/black-cloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grahame always carried <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A black cloth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case he spilt his xoffee  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was sitting in a diner <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a group of punks walked in <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They spilt his xoffee  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst tormenting a waitress  <br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grahame took a dim view of this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And insisted that they apologise <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This did not happen and one drew a knife <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He gave his drawing to my hero <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who told one punk that he owned an art gallery  <br><br><br><br>The waitress had the last word <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she shot all three punks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With her daddy&#8217;s lost revolver <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I asked her why she noted that xoffee <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was the diners speciality and she was upset <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That my xoffee had been violently abused <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gave her my cloth and we cleaned up <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The xoffee and splatter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daisie is now my partner and my wife <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grahame always carried A black cloth In case he spilt his xoffee He was sitting in a diner When a group of punks walked in They spilt his xoffee Whilst tormenting a waitress Grahame took a dim view of this And insisted that they apologise This did not happen and one drew a knife He [&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-30744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744","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=30744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30751,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions\/30751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}