{"id":4714,"date":"2020-10-14T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:40:06","slug":"tono-bungay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/tono-bungay\/","title":{"rendered":"Tono-Bungay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the High Street not far from the church there is a bookshop that sells nothing but the H.G.Wells novel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tono-Bungay<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are over six thousand stocked<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I had run out I popped into the bookshop on my way back from the marmalade factory<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Saturdays it was staffed by a German woman retro punk in appearance with bright pink hair<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I asked her why the book had such an unusual title<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She confessed ignorance and suggested that I speak to the author himself<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I said that this would be impossible as Well&#8217;s died in 1946.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The woman who had originated from the GDR and was married to an ex-homosexual noted that if I visited the shop at a quarter to eight that I would be sure to catch him before he died<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the High Street not far from the church there is a bookshop that sells nothing but the H.G.Wells novel Tono-Bungay There are over six thousand stocked As I had run out I popped into the bookshop on my way back from the marmalade factory On Saturdays it was staffed by a German woman retro [&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\/4714"}],"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=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}