{"id":4136,"date":"2020-09-03T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:02:03","slug":"extreme-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/extreme-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whilst living on a kibbutz in the 1970s I was slightly injured in a bombing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The insurgents was all captured or killed but my injuries although slight<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Enabled me to see things almost microscopically which is a gift<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can see the smallest of creatures and often look at tree trunks for entertainment<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But it does have its disadvantages as when I go to the cinema<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0It feels as if I am part of the movie which can be disconcerting<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My girlfriend is from Chile but has lived in France since her youth<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She tells me that a good number of people from Chile share my gift<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And whilst it is not commonplace it is widely accepted<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During the years of the Pinochet regime it was outlawed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And people with the condition were persecuted and imprisoned<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Manuela&#8217;s parents whilst in exile arranged for a number of these dissidents<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To come to France and there are about a hundred living in Paris and Toulouse<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I often meet people with this gift and we share our values and ideas<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But deep down I think that we would like to be ordinary and see as others do<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If only I had not been at the washstand on the day of the bombing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have considered this often but I cannot change my history<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And given the opportunity would I really want to<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst living on a kibbutz in the 1970s I was slightly injured in a bombing The insurgents was all captured or killed but my injuries although slight Enabled me to see things almost microscopically which is a gift I can see the smallest of creatures and often look at tree trunks for entertainment But it [&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\/4136"}],"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=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}