{"id":36168,"date":"2026-09-15T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36168"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:50:21","slug":"the-powerful-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/the-powerful-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The powerful play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leslie Van Houghton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrote these words<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his battered diary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before he was killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The powerful play<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Are there any complaints<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gave his diary to Lynda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I visited her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She returned it to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few months later<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And noted that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had shared this part<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of his life and death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it would make<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her very happy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I kept these final hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of his trapped history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Van Houghton Wrote these words In his battered diary Just before he was killed The powerful play Are there any complaints I gave his diary to Lynda When I visited her She returned it to me A few months later And noted that I had shared this part Of his life and death And [&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-36168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168","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=36168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36169,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168\/revisions\/36169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}