{"id":33539,"date":"2026-04-16T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:39:20","slug":"the-smiling-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/the-smiling-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smiling Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I own two dull smiling stones <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which I found just over a year apart <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I say own but one cannot own a stone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stones own stones that is pretty obvious <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The larger of the stones has a recognisable face <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which seems to be frozen in an open horror <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas the smaller stone has a mangled face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Much damaged and more distressed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has an erratic shape which differs greatly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the elliptical calmness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the larger stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both are viciously silent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which inhibits any explanation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the distortion of their hollow faces <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What horrors had they witnessed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During these other wars  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own two dull smiling stones Which I found just over a year apart I say own but one cannot own a stone Stones own stones that is pretty obvious The larger of the stones has a recognisable face Which seems to be frozen in an open horror Whereas the smaller stone has a mangled [&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\/33539"}],"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=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33545,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions\/33545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}