{"id":33143,"date":"2026-03-31T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33143"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:16:40","slug":"the-waiting-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/the-waiting-room-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have spent the last four days <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this waiting room with Natalie <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have not missed our trains <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is far from the truth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have decided not to catch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These lonely regional trains <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As this will spoil our plans <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both of us are beginning to decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our clothes smell of our wasted hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am beginning to grow a scruffy beard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie&#8217;s blonde hair is slowly losing its shine  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are positioned in the far corner <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of this beautifully ornate waiting room <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody is choosing to sit near us <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although this could change in an instant <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last four days In this waiting room with Natalie We have not missed our trains That is far from the truth We have decided not to catch These lonely regional trains As this will spoil our plans Both of us are beginning to decay Our clothes smell of our wasted hours [&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-33143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143","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=33143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33148,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143\/revisions\/33148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}