{"id":5305,"date":"2020-11-13T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:51:14","slug":"the-cottages-by-the-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/the-cottages-by-the-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cottages by the Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Quite often I take walks without money or means of identification<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I visit the village of Avon Cliff which is about ten miles distant from my home<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a strange village in many ways as there is a circle of cottages built next to the railway track<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Quite why these cottages were built so close to the railway track is open to question<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But it is thought that a station was planned but never finished<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some of the front doors on the river facing side are only yards from the track<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But there has never been an accident here as the people who inhabit the cottages<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Respect the railway greatly and are very careful at all times<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are more cottages opposite but these are built on a slope that partially obscures the river<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whenever I visit these cottages I always take tea with Miss Stevens<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who has lived at number six for twenty-eight years<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And because of this recreation<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I rarely find time to explore the river and the water meadows beyond<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often I take walks without money or means of identification I visit the village of Avon Cliff which is about ten miles distant from my home It is a strange village in many ways as there is a circle of cottages built next to the railway track Quite why these cottages were built so [&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\/5305"}],"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=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}