{"id":454,"date":"2013-11-17T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-11-17T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T15:30:26","slug":"in-batavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/in-batavia\/","title":{"rendered":"In Batavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clowns will play cricket<br \/>\nas crocodiles watch<br \/>\nand a Miss Lochart<br \/>\nwill share her room<br \/>\nwith a sad elephant<\/p>\n<p>A brave captain<br \/>\nwill leave footprints<br \/>\non a burning isle<br \/>\nas he draws its final map<br \/>\n(and buries <i>The Itinerario <\/i>with all due respect)<\/p>\n<p>Canals lined with tamarind<br \/>\nwill swarm with dazed mice<br \/>\nand the bees<br \/>\nwill leave their hives<br \/>\nto witness the deep fish<br \/>\ntaking the air<\/p>\n<p>In the high sails of ships<br \/>\nthe body of Christ<br \/>\nwill illuminate the clouds<br \/>\nand the local gods<br \/>\nwill take their leave<br \/>\nas their world explodes<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the dead<br \/>\nwill drift on pumice rafts<br \/>\nand tame tides will be noticed<br \/>\nin genteel Biarritz<\/p>\n<p>The ghosts of Jan Pieterszoon<br \/>\nand young Saatje Specx<br \/>\nwill wonder at the darkness<br \/>\nof the energies spent<br \/>\nof the spices rich<br \/>\nnow turned to dust<\/p>\n<p>Of the second coming<br \/>\nof the son of the deep<br \/>\nwho will battle the waves<br \/>\nas his father did<br \/>\nbut who will die again<br \/>\nin a violent return<\/p>\n<p>1983<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clowns will play cricket as crocodiles watch and a Miss Lochart will share her room with a sad elephant A brave captain will leave footprints on a burning isle as he draws its final map (and buries The Itinerario with all due respect) Canals lined with tamarind will swarm with dazed mice and the bees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}