{"id":31106,"date":"2025-12-27T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=31106"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:43:02","slug":"perfumes-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/perfumes-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfumes of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often visited my brother and his wife in their small line side cottage <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colin worked for the railways as a crossing keeper on a lightly used line <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had once been much busier before the southern rerouting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They lived near a small fruit town which was always busy with itinerants <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who had come to pick the fruits as the season slowly matured  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katherine looked after an allotment behind their cottage  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where they grew many vegetables for the kitchen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was made very welcome on each of my visits <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My brother always placed her sleepy grasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into my small room to help me relax in the heat <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their cottage was also perfumed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By beautiful mimosa flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which left a sweet and honeyed scent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all rooms especially as the day faded  <br><br><br>Lucian <\/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\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often visited my brother and his wife in their small line side cottage Colin worked for the railways as a crossing keeper on a lightly used line It had once been much busier before the southern rerouting They lived near a small fruit town which was always busy with itinerants Who had come to [&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-31106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106","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=31106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31120,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions\/31120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}