{"id":5197,"date":"2020-11-12T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:29:19","slug":"the-secret-life-of-ashtrays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/the-secret-life-of-ashtrays\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Ashtrays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against my better judgement I have a few media sites live<\/p>\n<p>My publisher told me that it was a good move<\/p>\n<p>As I am naturally quite reclusive<\/p>\n<p>Get out there he said<\/p>\n<p>Let people see the man behind the books<\/p>\n<p>So I with a certain dread I complied<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that I am a quite a handsome fellow<\/p>\n<p>And of late I have been getting queer messages<\/p>\n<p>From people who call themselves fans<\/p>\n<p><em>Download some unclothed photographs Stuart<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everybody does it these days<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have checked this out and indeed they are correct<\/p>\n<p>As everybody from famous celebrities to obscure zed listers<\/p>\n<p>Find an excuse to show their butts<\/p>\n<p>It is a form of exhibitionism I suppose<\/p>\n<p>As other parts of their bodies are brutally supressed<\/p>\n<p>By invisible regulators based in garages in LA<\/p>\n<p>But I am not going to show the world my butt<\/p>\n<p>Even though I consider it fine<\/p>\n<p>I am accused of being a prude<\/p>\n<p>But nothing is further from the truth<\/p>\n<p>As my wife and I can often be found on nudist beaches<\/p>\n<p>I do not give a shit about who sees me naked<\/p>\n<p>But I draw the line about appearing on the internet<\/p>\n<p>As I consider myself a poor poet<\/p>\n<p>Which is better than being a poor naked poet<\/p>\n<p>With a rather nice butt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against my better judgement I have a few media sites live My publisher told me that it was a good move As I am naturally quite reclusive Get out there he said Let people see the man behind the books So I with a certain dread I complied The trouble is that I am a [&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\/5197"}],"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=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}