{"id":4219,"date":"2020-09-07T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:00:36","slug":"vampires-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/vampires-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampires in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Paris for over twenty years as a translator of erotic fiction<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly in these more puritantical times there is a great call for these novels<\/p>\n<p>Puritanical is a poor choice of word I think but unlike the Paris of the 1990s<\/p>\n<p>There have been in my view erosions of freedom which is very sad<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the lunatics are now running the asylums<\/p>\n<p>However there are many like me who consider that this is totally unacceptable<\/p>\n<p>This has happened many times before during the history of this great city<\/p>\n<p>When the freethinkers have been put to the savage sword<\/p>\n<p>But in conclusion the answer remains the same<\/p>\n<p>And already the impure creatures are suffering greatly<\/p>\n<p>For Paris is a city of vampires who are quite loyal to people such as myself<\/p>\n<p>They dispatch the correct quietly with the minimum of fuss<\/p>\n<p>And are quite mysterious leaving the authorities clueless<\/p>\n<p>In time this disease will fade and a kind of normality will return<\/p>\n<p>The vampires will then fade again into their dreamless dreams<\/p>\n<p>Until they are required once more to purify this lovely city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Paris for over twenty years as a translator of erotic fiction Surprisingly in these more puritantical times there is a great call for these novels Puritanical is a poor choice of word I think but unlike the Paris of the 1990s There have been in my view erosions of freedom which [&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\/4219"}],"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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}