An elderly lady collapsed whilst painting a lamp post<\/p>\n
And was taken to hospital suffering from heat exhaustion<\/p>\n
I offered to finish painting the lamp post chocolate brown<\/p>\n
And was given a large leather glove not suited to the task<\/p>\n
On a paddle steamer off of the coast of Vietnam<\/p>\n
An American journalist heard about this incident on the radio<\/p>\n
The poet and artist Frank Harris is reported to have painted a lamp post\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n chocolate brown after the original worker collapsed in the Liverpool heat\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n She immediately rang my friend Ralph who was drunk and received an jumbled answer<\/p>\n Fifteen days later Gertrude arrived in Gravesend and caught a train to Liverpool<\/p>\n She found me painting a poem near the river just after the cops showed up<\/p>\n I thought she was going to pay my fine but instead present me with a recording<\/p>\n Of the radio programme and a bunch of flowers for the elderly lady who had since died<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An elderly lady collapsed whilst painting a lamp post And was taken to hospital suffering from heat exhaustion I offered to finish painting the lamp post chocolate brown And was given a large leather glove not suited to the task On a paddle steamer off of the coast of Vietnam An American journalist heard about […]<\/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\/4247"}],"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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}