{"id":4986,"date":"2020-11-08T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2020-11-08T21:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:06:55","slug":"avignon-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/avignon-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Avignon &#038; After"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>During my recent visit to Avignon the temperatures in the city exceeded forty degrees<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Avignon Festival had began and the city was buzzing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Roads and squares had become venues for street theatre and concerts<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And all available walls had become gallery spaces<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the final day of our visit I purchased a book of poetry<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which was wrapped in warn cellophane<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This book remained in my possession during our long journey home<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And although it was still wrapped in cellophane I was about to read it<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When three large beetles fell from the night sky<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They had originated from the low platform canopy on platform six<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which had recently been cleaned using high pressure hoses<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As my wife and I removed the terrified creatures from our hair<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I saw a fox hiding in the undergrowth next to the tracks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The scruffy creature was not smiling although I knew that he had found the incident humorous<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Foxes are such dour animals<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent visit to Avignon the temperatures in the city exceeded forty degrees The Avignon Festival had began and the city was buzzing Roads and squares had become venues for street theatre and concerts And all available walls had become gallery spaces On the final day of our visit I purchased a book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986"}],"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=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}