{"id":5000,"date":"2020-11-08T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2020-11-08T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:24:49","slug":"stephen-and-the-sea-urchins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/stephen-and-the-sea-urchins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen and the Sea Urchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nature in itself has many signatures some are simple and others are much more complex<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In car parks for instance the sequential numbers that are stenciled onto the rough walls begin to fade after a few years<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet the car park is still functional<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This worries me a great deal as I often study sea urchins<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These creatures have no conception of car parks although they cling to rough surfaces<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which are similar to those found in multi-story car parks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I used to work in a care home before I started studying sea urchins<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sea urchins have no hands<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But most of the people in my care had hands<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some of these were no more than claws riddled by disease<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet when I brought them tea they would try to grip the cup<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even though they knew that they would require my existence<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This was an instinctive reaction<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My sister told me that these aged hands would soon be caressing God<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I disagreed with her as there is no God<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But their hands still fascinated me<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sea urchins have no conception of God<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Neither do the sequential numbers that can be found in car parks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unlike me they do not fear death<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As they do not understand the infinite<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature in itself has many signatures some are simple and others are much more complex In car parks for instance the sequential numbers that are stenciled onto the rough walls begin to fade after a few years Yet the car park is still functional This worries me a great deal as I often study sea [&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\/5000"}],"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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}