{"id":3952,"date":"2020-08-29T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2020-08-29T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:53:07","slug":"pretty-pink-parrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/29\/pretty-pink-parrots\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Pink Parrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have an unusual hobby which might be considered dangerous<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It involves jumping out of a plane at five thousand feet without a parachute<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With at least five items of crockery<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This\u00a0must be done over vast food producing fields<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Although the fall is enjoyable it passes very quickly<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So I try to enjoy it as much as I can<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The landing is my secret and I land almost as if I am landing on a cushion<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Never in all my jumps have I ever hurt myself or experienced pain<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My favorite fields are the green vegetable\u00a0fields as I can spot my crockery\u00a0with ease<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wheat fields can be a tad more challenging as my ceramics are often hidden<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sometimes\u00a0I find that an entrepreneur has built a store on his land<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So that he may sell his produce directly to the public<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This makes life a little bit more difficult for me as my crockery can land on the building or buildings<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I enjoy this\u00a0challenge\u00a0as after requesting permission I climb on to the roof of these buildings<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As of this week I have never lost any of my friends although a teapot did get stuck on a flagpole last year<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This took me a few hours to retrieve as I did not want to damage the maple flag<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From October to March I do not make these jumps as the visibility is often poor<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And during this periods the fields are normally fallow or covered in snow<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next year I hope to make a jump with six of eighteenth century cups and four saucers<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which were retrieved from a shipwreck off of the coast of Siam<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an unusual hobby which might be considered dangerous It involves jumping out of a plane at five thousand feet without a parachute With at least five items of crockery This\u00a0must be done over vast food producing fields Although the fall is enjoyable it passes very quickly So I try to enjoy it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}