{"id":4148,"date":"2020-09-03T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:52:59","slug":"24-hour-party-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/24-hour-party-people\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Party People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was on the beach with my beautiful wife when a rather nice looking chap sat more or less in front of us<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At first I thought he was admiring my wife&#8217;s breasts as she always sunbathed topless<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This did not bother me as I have always considered that beauty should be shared<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He then asked me what I was reading and I passed my book to him<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My book was an investigation into the identity of Shakespeare&#8217;s Dark Lady<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The stranger introduced himself as Ralph and pointed to a woman who was swimming in the sea and noted that he and his wife were visiting the area as he was attending a lecture in Canterbury<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said that he had written many books about The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and was considered something of an expert<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ralph asked me for my thoughts and I told him that the descriptions left by Shakespeare led me to believe that the raven haired beauty might have come from a country such as Spain or Portugal or might have been the daughter of a merchant of Iberian origins<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was then asked to consider whether the Dark Lady might have been a negress as he thought this was a possibility<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My wife who by now had grown weary of our conversation stood up and announced that she would swim<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the matter of the origins of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets I said that I had considered that she might have had African origins or at least was a native of the Maghreb but thought it unlikely due to the social geography at the time<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We agreed to differ and for the next fifteen minutes discussed the beauty of the sonnets themselves<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our interesting but rather empty conversation was interrupted when my wife accompanied by Ralph&#8217;s wife sat down in front of us and said that we were both being bores<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was then that I noticed that Ralph&#8217;s wife was as dark as my wife was fair<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the beach with my beautiful wife when a rather nice looking chap sat more or less in front of us At first I thought he was admiring my wife&#8217;s breasts as she always sunbathed topless This did not bother me as I have always considered that beauty should be shared He then [&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\/4148"}],"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=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}