{"id":5117,"date":"2020-11-10T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2020-11-10T18:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:33:29","slug":"the-kingsdown-mermaid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/the-kingsdown-mermaid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingsdown Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She steals around the village after dark<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weeping for her lost love<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many have tried to help her<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But she was betrayed<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the fluid whiteness<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of her sea dress<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>A weeping mermaid visits the small coastal village of Kingsdown in Kent once a year on the anniversary of her fianc\u00e9s death<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He died in a shipwreck not far from the village many years ago<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The mermaid tried to rescue her fianc\u00e9 but was hindered by the weight of her wedding dress<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She steals around the village after dark Weeping for her lost love Many have tried to help her But she was betrayed By the fluid whiteness Of her sea dress A weeping mermaid visits the small coastal village of Kingsdown in Kent once a year on the anniversary of her fianc\u00e9s death He died in [&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\/5117"}],"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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}