{"id":4006,"date":"2020-08-30T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T12:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2020-08-30T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T12:42:54","slug":"bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/30\/bus-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>One<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Fifteen years ago I ran for a bus at the central railway station<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I caught the bus and struck up a conversation with a girl called Lola<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She is now my wife<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Two\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Fifteen years ago I ran for a bus at the central railway station<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the driver did not wait for me so I caught a train to the next village<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whilst on this train\u00a0I met a girl called Olga who was visiting\u00a0her sister<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We dated for a while but as she lived in the capital city this proved difficult<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Slowly our romance faded but we still correspond<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Three<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fifteen years ago I ran for a bus at the central railway station<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the driver had been taken ill<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So I had to wait for the replacement driver<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whilst waiting I struck up a conversation with a girl called Astrid<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She told me that she was on the run as she had assassinated the Prime Minister<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had no reason to disbelieve\u00a0her as our Prime Minister had been assassinated<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our bus was later cancelled as the replacement driver had been further delayed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We agreed to walk back to my hotel so that we might spend some time\u00a0together<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My companion was arrested outside of the hotel as I had alerted the authorities whilst taking a leak<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She was sentenced to life in prison for her crime<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0I visit her once a week at the grey prison in the capital city<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She has no idea who betrayed her<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One \u00a0 Fifteen years ago I ran for a bus at the central railway station I caught the bus and struck up a conversation with a girl called Lola She is now my wife Two\u00a0 \u00a0 Fifteen years ago I ran for a bus at the central railway station But the driver did not wait [&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\/4006"}],"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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}