{"id":40,"date":"2013-09-24T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=40"},"modified":"2013-09-24T19:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:45:57","slug":"dry-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/24\/dry-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Alice, Alice and Alice<br \/>\ntravelled to the Redwater<br \/>\nthey always took the agile route<\/p>\n<p>past the soda stall<\/p>\n<p>Each had a Moroccan appearance<br \/>\neven though they had been born<br \/>\non the Manchester Road<\/p>\n<p>morocco was their mothers favoured country<\/p>\n<p>They were all in fine health<br \/>\nuntil the sixteenth of each month<br \/>\nwhen they hovered near death<br \/>\nby the nineteenth they were well again<\/p>\n<p>Each Alice had a brother called Phillip<br \/>\nwho in turn had five sisters called Sissy<br \/>\nnone were good swimmers<br \/>\nbut they all insisted on swimming the channel for fun<\/p>\n<p>The event was arduous and long<br \/>\nbut they passed the time<br \/>\nby reading cheap thrillers<br \/>\nfrom their library<\/p>\n<p>They all admired Major Paul<br \/>\nwho lived in the great house<br \/>\non the edge of town<br \/>\nwith his collection of pheasants<\/p>\n<p>He was a pleasant chap<br \/>\nwell spoken and brave<br \/>\nwho had once rescued a Mountain Goat<br \/>\nfrom certain death on an average hill<\/p>\n<p>Each of the sisters married<br \/>\nin their twenty-fifth year<br \/>\ntheir husbands were Greek<br \/>\nand experts on the Beaufort Scale<\/p>\n<p>The only exception was Lucy<br \/>\nwho eloped with Major Paul<br \/>\nto the cellar of his house<br \/>\nwhere they lived happily for many years<\/p>\n<p>Sisters Sissy each remained unmarried<br \/>\nAnd stayed with their brothers translating the Roman poets<br \/>\nwith the exception of Juvenal<br \/>\nwho was translated elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>All the sisters and all the brothers<br \/>\nreached their hundredth year<br \/>\nand died of diseases from A to Z<br \/>\nwith the exception of Alice<\/p>\n<p>who now lives with Major Paul<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Alice, Alice and Alice travelled to the Redwater they always took the agile route past the soda stall Each had a Moroccan appearance even though they had been born on the Manchester Road morocco was their mothers favoured country They were all in fine health until the sixteenth of each month when they hovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}