{"id":35419,"date":"2026-08-13T03:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=35419"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:11:06","slug":"the-hotel-near-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/the-hotel-near-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotel near the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butch and I were standing<br \/>\nIn the long shadows of the day<br \/>\nWaiting for the Non Eclipse<br \/>\nThe evening ride was over<br \/>\nAnd our bicycles were resting<br \/>\nNear the sloping path leading to the beach<br \/>\nYou were reading The Odyssey<br \/>\nI was reading The Iliad<br \/>\nBoth were written by Homer<br \/>\nAlthough this now seems doubtful<br \/>\nThese facts or Non Facts<br \/>\nWere the least of our concerns<br \/>\nOn this the penultimate day of our holiday<br \/>\nIn the distance the local football club<br \/>\nWas training or rather Non Training<br \/>\nA difficult season was almost certain<br \/>\nJudging by the movement and the touch<br \/>\nYou suggested that the Non Eclipse<br \/>\nWas likely to follow the sun as it set<br \/>\nAnd that we were wasting our evening<br \/>\nWe agreed to share an Estrella Damm<br \/>\nShower and retire to towns only cinema<br \/>\nWhere The Odyssey was being shown<br \/>\nI was dubious about our attendance<br \/>\nAs I did not trust American movies<br \/>\nFull of named actors and actresses<br \/>\nI would have preferred direction by Pasolini<br \/>\nAnd a cast of total unknowns as long as you were cast<br \/>\nAs either Calypso Penelope or Helen of Troy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butch and I were standing In the long shadows of the day Waiting for the Non Eclipse The evening ride was over And our bicycles were resting Near the sloping path leading to the beach You were reading The Odyssey I was reading The Iliad Both were written by Homer Although this now seems doubtful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=35419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35423,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419\/revisions\/35423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}