{"id":30805,"date":"2025-12-11T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=30805"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:59:02","slug":"taking-the-piss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/taking-the-piss\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Piss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a mild yet windy December evening <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I visited the bathroom to meet my coffee <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something I had done many times before <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a familiar yet tedious occupation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet this was a special moment for an errant spider <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I spotted it fall into my piss pool <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in a dilemma as it was beginning to drown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should I finish it off by flushing the bowl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or rescue it from its unpleasant fate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did the latter and found it within one search <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had created a web by the time I had opened the window <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Vanishing without even a quiet word of thanks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt good about myself as I washed my hands <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And wondered whether in the deep history of spiders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would my rescue be celebrated in the years to come     <br><br><br><br>P.B.Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a mild yet windy December evening I visited the bathroom to meet my coffee Something I had done many times before It was a familiar yet tedious occupation Yet this was a special moment for an errant spider Because I spotted it fall into my piss pool I was in a dilemma as it [&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-30805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805","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=30805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30814,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions\/30814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}