{"id":36982,"date":"2026-10-28T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36982"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:57:50","slug":"the-great-maja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/the-great-maja\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Maja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learnt how to walk the tightrope&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was very young&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These wires were less than three feet\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above the flat sawdust ring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I grew older&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These wires became higher&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until I lost sight of the audiences&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who I now glimpse occasionally\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the high clouds\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the peaceful&nbsp;days&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between my performances&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt how to walk the tightrope&nbsp; When I was very young&nbsp; These wires were less than three feet\u00a0 Above the flat sawdust ring As I grew older&nbsp; These wires became higher&nbsp; Until I lost sight of the audiences&nbsp; Who I now glimpse occasionally\u00a0 Through the high clouds\u00a0 On the peaceful&nbsp;days&nbsp; Between my performances&nbsp;<\/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-36982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982","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=36982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36989,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions\/36989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}