{"id":4207,"date":"2020-09-07T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:35:21","slug":"storm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/storm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On the day of the storm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My wife and I had travelled<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Back from the coast<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My wife had stolen<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>The Catcher in the Rye<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From a railway bookshop<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And was reading it on the train<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When we arrived in our home town<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The storm was at its height<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So we sheltered for a while<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Before breaking cover<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had not travelled more than a hundred yards<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When a crack of lightning broke above us<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Followed by the roar of a thunderclap<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My wife immediately jumped into my arms<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And in doing so let her Salinger book<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fall into a torrential puddle<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She kissed my drenched face<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I assured her that the danger had passed<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of the storm My wife and I had travelled Back from the coast My wife had stolen The Catcher in the Rye From a railway bookshop And was reading it on the train When we arrived in our home town The storm was at its height So we sheltered for a while [&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\/4207"}],"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=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}