{"id":4217,"date":"2020-09-07T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:57:35","slug":"my-silver-watch-was-five-metres-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/my-silver-watch-was-five-metres-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"My Silver Watch was Five Metres Tall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My Silver Watch was Five Metres Tall<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And had been a good friend of mine for many years<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We travelled together by train throughout Europe and the Middle East<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When the war came along we fled to the United States<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And purchased a Hacienda Style house in Los Angeles<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1944 my silver watch was called up for military service<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which upset me a great deal as I was rejected because of my weak lungs<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the July of that year I received a telegram to say that my watch had been killed in France<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My grief was intense and for six months I locked myself away in a watch factory<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I did not find companionship and slowly I became something of a recluse<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I visit my watch&#8217;s grave in a military cemetery near Caen once a year<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a peaceful place where the smothered silence is only broken<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By the fading ticking of the silver watches who died before their time<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Silver Watch was Five Metres Tall And had been a good friend of mine for many years We travelled together by train throughout Europe and the Middle East When the war came along we fled to the United States And purchased a Hacienda Style house in Los Angeles In 1944 my silver watch was [&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\/4217"}],"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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}