My son once asked me why so many fine ships<\/p>\n
Are broken up without a reprieve<\/p>\n
After years of loyal and exemplary service<\/p>\n
I told him that they had endured their useful lives<\/p>\n
And were now being rewarded with an eternal rest<\/p>\n
He looked up at me with a confusion in his saucer blue eyes<\/p>\n
I could see that he was rather doubtful<\/p>\n
He then took a small card from his jacket pocket<\/p>\n
Showing Turner’s masterpiece<\/p>\n
The Fighting Temeraire<\/p>\n
Then why is the sun blushing red at her final disgrace<\/em><\/p>\n He said without a hint of emotion in his young voice<\/p>\n I smiled but found it impossible to answer his question<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My son once asked me why so many fine ships Are broken up without a reprieve After years of loyal and exemplary service I told him that they had endured their useful lives And were now being rewarded with an eternal rest He looked up at me with a confusion in his saucer blue eyes […]<\/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\/4909"}],"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=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}