{"id":4380,"date":"2020-09-16T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2020-09-16T04:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:55:45","slug":"the-raven-and-the-writing-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/the-raven-and-the-writing-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raven and the Writing Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>Why is a raven like a writing desk\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Asked the Mad Hatter of Alice<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>I do not know the answer to your question\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Answered Alice looking distinctly puzzled<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Mad Hatter touched his pointed chin and smiled<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>You are in good company Alice as I do not know the answer either<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a tree not far away a large black raven was pondering the question raised<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After a short while the handsome creature also drew a blank<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next to the raven tree stood another tree on which a writing desk was delicately balanced<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It too was contemplating the Mad Hatter&#8217;s question but before it could answer<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The writing desk fell from the tree and shattered into four hundred and ninety six separate pieces<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alice was startled by the incident and fell into a bed of pretty primroses<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Mad Hatters hat blew off and landed on the chimney of a passing train<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet nothing happened to the brisk black raven apart from his discovery of the answer to the rolling riddle<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which for some reason as yet unexplained he kept to himself until Alice reached twenty eight<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is a raven like a writing desk\u00a0 Asked the Mad Hatter of Alice I do not know the answer to your question\u00a0 Answered Alice looking distinctly puzzled The Mad Hatter touched his pointed chin and smiled You are in good company Alice as I do not know the answer either In a tree not [&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\/4380"}],"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=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}