{"id":3973,"date":"2020-08-30T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2020-08-30T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:45:27","slug":"long-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/30\/long-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You had tasked me to start a library<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had been instructed to borrow six books from two churches<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Catholic Church and a Happy Clappy Church<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I chose the latter and entered the church whilst the service was in full swing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It seemed that happy clappy people were bouncing off of the walls<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I asked to borrow some books but just received a heavy kiss on my cheek<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was then that I abandoned my task and headed towards the Catholic Church<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The difference was amazing and I sat in a deep pew and listened to silent prayer<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally a priest spoke to me and I asked to borrow some books<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I added that I admired the Catholic Church a great deal and that the gatherings were almost poetical<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He led me to an old bookcase which\u00a0was partially hidden by a confessional<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I chose six books on various subjects and was gifted alms so that I might go out into the world<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well read and with money in my pocket even though I was a rich man<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I gave the money to the first beggar I met and returned home to start a library with you<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You had tasked me to start a library I had been instructed to borrow six books from two churches A Catholic Church and a Happy Clappy Church I chose the latter and entered the church whilst the service was in full swing It seemed that happy clappy people were bouncing off of the walls I [&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\/3973"}],"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=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}