{"id":4764,"date":"2020-10-18T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2020-10-18T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T17:05:31","slug":"the-sea-is-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/18\/the-sea-is-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea is Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It had to happen as we were messing about in our boat<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Billy B was as clumsy as he always was<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And our bottles of wine soon fell into the sea<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Due to the tidal currents we could not retrieve the lost bottles<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And when we reached the beach we abandoned our lunch to the birds that lived nearby<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I suggested to Julie J that we should return to the mainland<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But she insisted that the weather was on the turn<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And that such a venture would be very foolish<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nothing much happened as we made our way to the town<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Although we were aware that the wind was cooling as it changed direction<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We drank a lot that night as a storm battered the small island<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The sun rose clearly the following morning and it was then that I decided to retrieve the lost bottles of wine<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I left the others asleep and headed for the beach where to my surprise<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I found the bottles washed up with the cargoes of many years<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I supposed that the violence of the storm had caused this mysterious bounty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until a mermaid in the shallows said that she had retrieved them during the night<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was a task that was expected of her when the conditions allowed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And other than this she was left quite alone to share her beauty with the breathless sea<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen as we were messing about in our boat Billy B was as clumsy as he always was And our bottles of wine soon fell into the sea Due to the tidal currents we could not retrieve the lost bottles And when we reached the beach we abandoned our lunch to the [&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\/4764"}],"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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}