{"id":33816,"date":"2026-04-26T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33816"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:16:16","slug":"the-poetry-of-spain-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/the-poetry-of-spain-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had asked myself    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many times <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was I falling in love with Eve <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I knew that I was not in love <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was very fond of Eve <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was not love <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And although I had not asked her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew that she felt the same about me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why complicate what is uncomplicated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I loved her naturalness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And her total lack of inhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But whilst she revealed everything <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without much thought <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was very touched <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she showed me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her collection of pebbles <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These were not ordinary stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As each had weathered <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In such a way that a window <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had been created by the sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked my companion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why she found these windows <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So fascinating and so deeply magical <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She did not answer and suggested <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That it was time for another swim <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the hot afternoon sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was beginning to fade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Slowly into the sea  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had asked myself The same question Many times Was I falling in love with Eve But I knew that I was not in love I was very fond of Eve But it was not love And although I had not asked her I knew that she felt the same about me Why complicate what [&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-33816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816","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=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33822,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions\/33822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}