{"id":34841,"date":"2026-06-28T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=34841"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:52:48","slug":"ship-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/ship-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My grandfather founded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the worlds great banks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His name was Richard Holmes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He arrived in the USA on the SS April Jane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And within thirty years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was the head of the bank <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That carried his memorable name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he never forgot his Scottish  roots <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for many years he had a ship in a bottle <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Displayed prominently on his office desk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ship was the SS April Jane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now own this ship in a bottle <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And often see my late grandfather <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking out to sea from its historic decks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather founded One of the worlds great banks His name was Richard Holmes He arrived in the USA on the SS April Jane And within thirty years Was the head of the bank That carried his memorable name But he never forgot his Scottish roots And for many years he had a ship in [&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\/34841"}],"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=34841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34844,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34841\/revisions\/34844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}