{"id":33828,"date":"2026-04-27T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33828"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:11:27","slug":"the-poetry-of-spain-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/the-poetry-of-spain-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> It was during my travels with Celine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That we alighted at this very station  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst we were here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both witnessed a landslide <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over there near where line divides <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was it spectacular <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More dusty than spectacular <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is such a barren lonely station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why were you here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we were meeting Celine&#8217;s brother <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then something very tragic happened <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man was overcome by the hot sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And died soon after in the station office  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We helped as much as we could <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the situation was quite hopeless <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never seen anybody die <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not something <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I would like to experience <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory we experienced nothing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One minute the man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was waiting for a train <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next minute he was dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freddie&#8217;s train arrived shortly afterwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We did our best <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst we waited for the authorities <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was nothing we could do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was something that he said <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which has stayed with me ever since<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl in charge was of tender years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And was not really coping <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said quite casually given the gravity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of what had just happened <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That death was the first night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of silence without dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was during my travels with Celine That we alighted at this very station Whilst we were here We both witnessed a landslide Where Over there near where line divides Was it spectacular Not really More dusty than spectacular It is such a barren lonely station Why were you here Because we were meeting Celine&#8217;s [&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\/33828"}],"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=33828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33841,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}