{"id":36208,"date":"2026-09-17T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36208"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:31:31","slug":"the-lies-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/the-lies-within\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lies Within"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fell in love during my nineteenth year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there was a complication <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Rosa was in love with another boy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who like me worked on the building site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In time my rival began to notice <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My affections towards his fianc\u00e9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned me to leave her alone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I did until his jealousy reappeared<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was threatened and told to leave the city <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We exchanged blows and then he fell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happened during the early hours <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before our site had opened its gates <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was not supposed to be there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my mother was quite unwell <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My rival fell three floors and died <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody knew that I had been there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother was sick and required my love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although an accident my timing was perfect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My rival had been careless and had fallen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were no witnesses present <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the observations of soft time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Rosa accepted  my hand <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We now have a son and daughter  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I often watch them in our garden <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing happily without many cares <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I still am haunted by my lies within <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love during my nineteenth year But there was a complication As Rosa was in love with another boy Who like me worked on the building site In time my rival began to notice My affections towards his fianc\u00e9e He warned me to leave her alone Which I did until his jealousy reappeared [&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-36208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208","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=36208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36214,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208\/revisions\/36214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}