{"id":500,"date":"2013-11-17T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:14:22","slug":"the-map-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/the-map-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the estuary of the forest<br \/>\na man taller than I spoke to me<\/p>\n<p><i>Lay in the humble undergrowth<br \/>\nand hear the heartbeat of the world<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was of youthful years<br \/>\nand had never considered the pulse beneath me<\/p>\n<p><i>You are the younger but in time you will know more<br \/>\nnever doubt me <\/i><\/p>\n<p>And with these words he was gone<\/p>\n<p>The spring flowers young of age<br \/>\nstill shook<br \/>\nbut with less passion<\/p>\n<p>And I was still there in the middle aile of the trees<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the vibrations beneath me ceased<br \/>\nand it was still once more<\/p>\n<p>The light had by now departed the day<br \/>\nand despite the social efforts of the paths<br \/>\nI was lost<\/p>\n<p>The cold hand of the night drooped over me<br \/>\nbut I did not despair at my deposit<br \/>\nalthough I was frightened<\/p>\n<p>Then quietly and slowly<br \/>\nthe earth vibrated again<br \/>\nand the tall stranger appeared one more<br \/>\nthis time some distance from me<\/p>\n<p><i>In time you will know more<br \/>\nBut for the present consult the map <\/i><\/p>\n<p>But where is this map ?<br \/>\nI asked of him<\/p>\n<p><i>It is everywhere<br \/>\nyou have made your recent passage on it<br \/>\nit will always be with you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The vibrations ceased<br \/>\nbut had occasion to illuminate<br \/>\nthe ground on which I stood<br \/>\nand for the first time<\/p>\n<p>I saw the map of love<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>1981<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the estuary of the forest a man taller than I spoke to me Lay in the humble undergrowth and hear the heartbeat of the world I was of youthful years and had never considered the pulse beneath me You are the younger but in time you will know more never doubt me And with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}