{"id":34528,"date":"2026-06-04T04:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=34528"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:40:20","slug":"first-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/first-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"First Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At first I thought I  had imagined it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was not my imagination <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three short clicks equally spaced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the same message <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are revolutions composed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or are they spontaneous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the afternoon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching my aunt showering <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked her perfumed soap <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked me the same question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a country runs out of foreign wars <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it start civil wars and condone assassinations <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are the most terrible revolutions fought in July <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am in the presidents cell sharing his last meal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why during these terrible wars can one hear the birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More people drown during these conflicts than are shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signals are slowly fading in time they will have faded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am now writing with a dry pen on a blank sheet of paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought I had imagined it But it was not my imagination Three short clicks equally spaced It was the same message Are revolutions composed Or are they spontaneous I spent the afternoon Watching my aunt showering I liked her perfumed soap She asked me the same question When a country runs out [&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\/34528"}],"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=34528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34531,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions\/34531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}