{"id":34310,"date":"2026-05-23T05:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=34310"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:48:50","slug":"conversations-a-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/conversations-a-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations \u00e0 Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The dead had died in vain \nThe peace was more bitter \nThan the war\n\nI like your tee shirt Miriam \nit is such a lovely shade of blue \n\nThe quote is from a book by Henry Williamson\n\nI found a copy in a bookshop earlier today\n\nIt has a memorable cover\n\nI love the use of different shades of red\n\nHave you read it \n\nNot yet\n\nThere is a passage near the end of the novel\nWhere one of the characters \nDeclares her love for the writer\nBut he prefers her friend\nAnd climbs a mountain to find her \nThe other girl who is devoted \nDies in the snow\nWhilst following him\nShe is her own victim\n\nHow do you know that \n\nI read the book when I was last in this city\n\nYou know me better than I know myself \n\nYou purchased the book for its cover \n\nIt is strange how old fashioned this novel seems today \n\nIf you study the people passing this cafe \n\nHow many of them would die for love \n\nThey are all engrossed in their own lives \n\nComfortable I hope with their partners \n\nWithout any thoughts of fate \n\nIf you look at the couple over there \n\nWhich couple \n\nThe ones under the pink parasol \n\nShe is wearing a beautiful summer dress \n\nI greatly admire her style \n\nHe is lightly running his finger \n\nUp and down her back \n\nWhy is he doing that \n\nIt is an invisible question \n\nWith an obvious answer \n\nDo you think she would die for him \n\nThey look to be in love \n\nPerhaps they are \n \n\n\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dead had died in vain The peace was more bitter Than the war I like your tee shirt Miriam it is such a lovely shade of blue The quote is from a book by Henry Williamson I found a copy in a bookshop earlier today It has a memorable cover I love the use [&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\/34310"}],"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=34310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34313,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions\/34313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}