{"id":4078,"date":"2020-09-02T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:12:59","slug":"coffee-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/coffee-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You are one of the most mysterious of creatures<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was reminded of the sad cockroach Gregor in Kafka&#8217;s tale<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As you sat half hidden amongst the wafer thin sea grasses<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You had escaped from a market stall on the long coastal path<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I supposed that you were running in the general direction of the sea<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But as a coffee bean you did not have legs which inhibited your means of escape<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So I picked you up and hid you in my pocket away from the feral death squads<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later I held you to my nose as your sweet perfume soon intrigued me<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had long suspected that you had originated in the vanilla scented tropics<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But unlike Gregor you will not perish by your own hand nor do I wish you any harm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You will pass your days in comfortable exile with my collection of exotic coffee beans<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deep in my strange kitchen that overlooks the quiet thoughts of the pale blue sea<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are one of the most mysterious of creatures I was reminded of the sad cockroach Gregor in Kafka&#8217;s tale As you sat half hidden amongst the wafer thin sea grasses You had escaped from a market stall on the long coastal path I supposed that you were running in the general direction of the [&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\/4078"}],"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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}