{"id":4512,"date":"2020-09-21T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:20:32","slug":"mrs-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/mrs-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until about about a year ago Mrs Moore lived next door<\/p>\n<p>I only saw her when she hung her washing out<\/p>\n<p>But she did not speak to me<\/p>\n<p>And it was about then that I began to get fascinated<\/p>\n<p>With the contents of her washing line<\/p>\n<p>You must understand that this was not in strange way<\/p>\n<p>As I was just as interested in her tea towels as I was with her smalls<\/p>\n<p>And then it all stopped and her latest line remained totally untouched<\/p>\n<p>Many months passed and I started to make local enquiries<\/p>\n<p>As the street birds had begun to nest in her peg bag<\/p>\n<p>And her knickers had been stolen by the strange man at number six<\/p>\n<p>I was eventually told that she had won a great deal of money on the lottery<\/p>\n<p>And was living in Barbados with her girlfriend and their dog<\/p>\n<p>I chased this up and contacted Mrs Moore asking what I should do with her decaying line<\/p>\n<p>She replied almost immediately and said that the contents of the washing line<\/p>\n<p>Would be mine for eternity if I could answer a simple question by return<\/p>\n<p>She asked me whether I pissed in the shower or did I frown on such activities<\/p>\n<p>I never answered her as I do not have a shower in my wet room<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until about about a year ago Mrs Moore lived next door I only saw her when she hung her washing out But she did not speak to me And it was about then that I began to get fascinated With the contents of her washing line You must understand that this was not in strange [&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\/4512"}],"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=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}