{"id":36520,"date":"2026-10-05T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36520"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:20:41","slug":"nostalgia-of-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/nostalgia-of-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia of Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother once knew a girl named <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Rossiter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who was known to everybody<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Hairy Mary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I never found out the reason why)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was sent to a farm in East Sussex <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With my mother and Katie Scales <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They stayed for nearly a year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then they were separated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I never found out the reason why)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother and Katie were sent to Arundel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Mary returned to her home in London <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where she was killed by a flying bomb <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just over a year after we waved goodbye  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother once knew a girl named Mary Rossiter Who was known to everybody As Hairy Mary (I never found out the reason why) She was sent to a farm in East Sussex With my mother and Katie Scales They stayed for nearly a year And then they were separated (I never found out the [&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-36520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520","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=36520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36523,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions\/36523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}