{"id":31727,"date":"2026-01-25T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=31727"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:27:12","slug":"swimming-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/swimming-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had never lived near the sea&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far from it&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lived as far from the sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As one could&nbsp;live<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I could swim&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked the sensation of water&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against my skin&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of my pals&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could not swim&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we were so far from the sea&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew that one day a great liner&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would sail across the massive cornfields&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near my home <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it would sink in a terrible storm\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a great loss of life&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comforted me to think <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I would easily survive\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\u00a0I had been taught how to swim\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never lived near the sea&nbsp; Far from it&nbsp; I lived as far from the sea As one could&nbsp;live But I could swim&nbsp; I liked the sensation of water&nbsp; Against my skin&nbsp; Many of my pals&nbsp; Could not swim&nbsp; Because we were so far from the sea&nbsp; I knew that one day a great [&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\/31727"}],"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=31727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31730,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions\/31730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}