{"id":32272,"date":"2026-02-21T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=32272"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:57:07","slug":"if-you-do-like-what-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/if-you-do-like-what-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"If you do not like what you see"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A painter must work for the taste of his own day. How does he know what people will like two or three hundred years hence? I maintain that a man should hold up the mirror to his own times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>John Everett Millais<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I entered your house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was framed above your door <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do you have it there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is quite simple John <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have painted many mirrors <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have written about many mirrors <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But your canvasses are blank <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And your poetry appears on blank pages <br><br><br>If you do not like what you see then turn away <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painter must work for the taste of his own day. How does he know what people will like two or three hundred years hence? I maintain that a man should hold up the mirror to his own times. John Everett Millais As I entered your house This was framed above your door Why do [&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\/32272"}],"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=32272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32279,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions\/32279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}