{"id":31787,"date":"2026-01-27T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=31787"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:06:41","slug":"sitting-on-a-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/sitting-on-a-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on a Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last summer I was walking along <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line of an old railway <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I came across <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statue of an evacuee <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitting on a bench <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a refurbished country station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A small plaque explained <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That her name was June Rodgers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that five years before my visit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had returned to Ropley Marks  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To unveil her statue and meet others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who had been evacuated to the village <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During those turbulent but memorable years  <br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I was walking along The line of an old railway When I came across The statue of an evacuee Sitting on a bench At a refurbished country station A small plaque explained That her name was June Rodgers And that five years before my visit She had returned to Ropley Marks To unveil [&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-31787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787","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=31787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31791,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787\/revisions\/31791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}