{"id":36143,"date":"2026-09-14T21:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36143"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:04:17","slug":"its-been-a-long-journey-millie-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/its-been-a-long-journey-millie-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been Such a Long Journey Millie Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are your dreams like <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you still even dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I no longer dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have not had a dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I returned home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was nearly a year ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am beginning to realise <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That my war is now over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that rather strangely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was one of the lucky ones <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody is shooting at me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody desires my death  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am no longer a soldier <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a free man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who breathes his own air <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not the dead air of others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is all over Billy Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything is now so ordinary <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So ordinary that you will cease <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To notice it as the years pass by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have been on a journey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a long journey <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I thought would never end <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been such a long journey Millie Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your dreams like Do you still even dream I no longer dream I have not had a dream Since I returned home That was nearly a year ago And I am beginning to realise That my war is now over And that rather strangely I was one of the lucky ones Nobody is [&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-36143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36143","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=36143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36150,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36143\/revisions\/36150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}