{"id":3971,"date":"2020-08-30T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2020-08-30T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:43:47","slug":"newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/30\/newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I had always been terrified of heights but found myself on the roof of a very tall building<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To make matters worse I was wearing only my underpants<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The elastic had broken and they were slipping away<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was terrified and embarrassed\u00a0at the same time<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You told me that there was a lift that travelled down the side of the building<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I started picking up some small plastic bottles but you said that my actions were useless<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You bared my muddy arse so I slapped your face you began to cry and I forgave you<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was in the lift with my eyes tightly closed I could feel people around me laughing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I opened my eyes and was immediately angry as my fellow passengers were also in their underwear<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The lift stopped on the fifty-fifth floor and from my vantage I could see straight down<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I felt physically sick and was told that the people who lived on the fifty-fifth floor had grown used to the disturbance<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The lift then jerked and the shock of the caused me to pass out and I have no further memories of the journey<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I came to I was on a piece of rough ground with you it was raining and mists were partially obscuring the tall building<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was now wearing a pair of faded overalls which you had stolen from the\u00a0<i>Newcastle Foundry<\/i>\u00a0this pleased me as I no longer felt naked<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When you were younger you told me that you caught a fever on a tropical river and as the small boat travelled deeper into the interior<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I thought I was about to die can we stay here for while we are both safe I no longer have the fever and you have returned to earth<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had always been terrified of heights but found myself on the roof of a very tall building To make matters worse I was wearing only my underpants The elastic had broken and they were slipping away I was terrified and embarrassed\u00a0at the same time You told me that there was a lift that travelled [&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\/3971"}],"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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}