{"id":4021,"date":"2020-08-31T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:03:35","slug":"blue-water-in-a-skating-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/31\/blue-water-in-a-skating-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Water in a Skating Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whenever\u00a0I am in Scarborough I always think of time passing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I stay at the Grand Hotel on the sixth floor facing the sea<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a hotel that knows time above all other things<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The four towers indicate the seasons of the year<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are fifty two chimneys counting the passing weeks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And there used to be three hundred and sixty-five rooms<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But now there are only two hundred and eighty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Staff have been told to be on the lookout for the missing rooms<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I always stay in the Cuthbert Room whilst you stay in the Victoria Room<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We should not been seen in each others company but we often sneak off into the town<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My name is Blue Water and you are known as Skating Park but we use aliases when staying at the hotel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because if we are caught together then the consequences would be serious especially for me<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You might say that you come here for your health but I have no excuse as my lungs are strong<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I might say that I am an architect a sixth child and that I often visit coastal towns to design gardens<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I do not imagine that for a minute I would be believed as architects never visit Scarborough<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever\u00a0I am in Scarborough I always think of time passing I stay at the Grand Hotel on the sixth floor facing the sea It is a hotel that knows time above all other things The four towers indicate the seasons of the year There are fifty two chimneys counting the passing weeks And there used [&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\/4021"}],"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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}