{"id":3519,"date":"2017-06-13T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:26:50","slug":"advice-to-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/13\/advice-to-collectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this beautiful country of ours we are lucky to possess many beaches that consist mainly of pebbles<\/p>\n<p>Generations have walked along these beaches looking for interesting stones<\/p>\n<p>But be aware of the following when you are next on the beach<\/p>\n<p>That is that certain pebbles possess almost human emotions and should be treated with care<\/p>\n<p>Last year I found what I subsequently called<\/p>\n<p><i>The Screaming Stone<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It had obviously witnessed Hell or something even more hideous<\/p>\n<p>I granted it refuge in my glass panelled bookcase where it would be able to suffer its nightmares in a place of security<\/p>\n<p>That was all I could do for it as its mental state was beyond repair<\/p>\n<p>Today I found another emotive pebble which I have called for the want of a better name<\/p>\n<p><i>The Sad Stone <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Whilst not traumatised like the screaming stone it has obviously had its share of unhappiness and for the present has joined me on my writing desk<\/p>\n<p>If on your travels you do come across an emotive stone please take time out to consider its mental state as removal although good intentioned might cause further damage<\/p>\n<p>As a rule of thumb I always talk to the pebble or stone in question to assess its needs and then make a considered decision<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this beautiful country of ours we are lucky to possess many beaches that consist mainly of pebbles Generations have walked along these beaches looking for interesting stones But be aware of the following when you are next on the beach That is that certain pebbles possess almost human emotions and should be treated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519"}],"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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}