{"id":4905,"date":"2020-11-01T21:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:44:27","slug":"the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a natural spring amongst the rocks<\/p>\n<p>At the southern end of Nash Beach<\/p>\n<p>It is very popular with beach users<\/p>\n<p>And therein lies its problem<\/p>\n<p>As many people either wash their hair<\/p>\n<p>Or soap down under this shower<\/p>\n<p>Leaving soapy deposits which stain the beach<\/p>\n<p>And at times run into the shallows<\/p>\n<p>A wooden bin had been provided<\/p>\n<p>So that the waste plastics were not discarded<\/p>\n<p>But this facility was often ignored and plastic bottles<\/p>\n<p>Were frequently found in the sea and on the beach<\/p>\n<p>I knew that God was aware of this problem<\/p>\n<p>And it came as no surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>When the spring suddenly dried up<\/p>\n<p>And a peddler began selling cheap relics nearby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a natural spring amongst the rocks At the southern end of Nash Beach It is very popular with beach users And therein lies its problem As many people either wash their hair Or soap down under this shower Leaving soapy deposits which stain the beach And at times run into the shallows A [&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\/4905"}],"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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}