{"id":36035,"date":"2026-09-11T04:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36035"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:44:01","slug":"whilst-walking-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/whilst-walking-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Whilst Walking My Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live in a lock keepers cottage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Janice and our two dogs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is obviously situated near <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kennet and Avon Canal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ours is an idyllic situation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was horribly spoilt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a drunken couple <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst I was walking Pippa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before her bedtime last week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not something <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I wanted my little dog to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried to report it to the authorities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they showed a distinct lack of interest <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I decided as a warning to others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To change the nearest direction sign<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Away from its correct name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It now rather sadly reads <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kennet and Avon Anal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was treated locally as vandalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think I was well within my rights <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To post this as a warning to others <br><br>Walking their nocturnal dogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a lock keepers cottage With Janice and our two dogs It is obviously situated near The Kennet and Avon Canal Ours is an idyllic situation Which was horribly spoilt By a drunken couple Whilst I was walking Pippa Just before her bedtime last week It was not something That I wanted my [&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-36035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035","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=36035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36043,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035\/revisions\/36043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}