{"id":32469,"date":"2026-02-28T23:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=32469"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:32:47","slug":"rosa-and-the-petal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/rosa-and-the-petal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa and the Petal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day before <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My nineteenth birthday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plucked a pink petal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the Never tree <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a souvenir of my home <br><br><br>Twenty years later <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son now an American GI <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Returned to my tree <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But found nothing there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had been totally destroyed   <br><br><br>A village girl named Rosa <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressed a living white petal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into his shaking hand <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And promised that he would <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survive the war <\/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>On the day before My nineteenth birthday I plucked a pink petal From the Never tree As a souvenir of my home Twenty years later My son now an American GI Returned to my tree But found nothing there It had been totally destroyed A village girl named Rosa Pressed a living white petal Into [&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-32469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469","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=32469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32480,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469\/revisions\/32480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}