{"id":33062,"date":"2026-03-28T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33062"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:36:24","slug":"the-staircase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/the-staircase\/","title":{"rendered":"The Staircase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was just seventeen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was approached by a homosexual <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a sunken toilet opposite the tube station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing happened apart from my distress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I waited for him at the street level entrance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He smiled at me as he ascended the steep stairs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was a big mistake as I punched him in the face <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He flew backwards into the disgusting void <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I had committed a violence I left quickly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week later I read in the local paper <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That a middle aged man had been attacked <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a men&#8217;s toilet on Shepherds Bush Green <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had suffered a fractured skull and other injuries <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police it was said were hunting for beautiful blonde youth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was just seventeen I was approached by a homosexual In a sunken toilet opposite the tube station Nothing happened apart from my distress But I waited for him at the street level entrance He smiled at me as he ascended the steep stairs That was a big mistake as I punched him in [&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-33062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062","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=33062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33065,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062\/revisions\/33065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}