{"id":31954,"date":"2026-02-03T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=31954"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:50:16","slug":"the-brothers-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/the-brothers-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first met them they had been thrown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of a football match for causing trouble <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The younger of the two brothers Rolf <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had been taken to hospital accompanied <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Toni who was not badly injured <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I become involved as I had cared<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Toni who was still in a state of shock  <br><br><br>I still live in the same house opposite the ground <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And apart from war damage not much has changed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was until yesterday when their mother visited me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She came with sad news as both brothers were dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had been killed in the latter stages of the war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wanted nothing but to share my memories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of an era when although difficult things made more sense  <br><br><br><br>Histories Paula <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated from the German <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first met them they had been thrown Out of a football match for causing trouble The younger of the two brothers Rolf Had been taken to hospital accompanied By Toni who was not badly injured I become involved as I had cared For Toni who was still in a state of shock I [&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\/31954"}],"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=31954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31961,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31954\/revisions\/31961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}