My train arrived at one of the low numbered platforms at the terminus station<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I was in a rush but needed a coffee before I travelled further into the silver city and was trying to remember where the buffets were located<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It was as I was approaching the barriers that I saw a scruffy fox emerge from beneath a train<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The creature stared at the people on the platform for a while and after deciding that they were not ghosts disappeared from where it came<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Later as we shared a coffee in the buffet on Platform One it explained to me that it was an urban fox and had been commissioned by the BBC to compose a song in praise of the new electric trains<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But it suffered acutely from stage fright and every time it emerged to perform its song it was gripped by an unconscious panic and ran away<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It asked me if I knew how to overcome this affliction<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I suggested that it might be an idea to imagine itself as a Ragtime composer and adopt a stage name<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The fox listened to me without interruption and then ordered another coffee for each of us<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When my coffee arrived I noticed that the blind but beautiful waitress had left a silver spoon in the china cup<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This simple mistake moved both the fox and I to tears<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My train arrived at one of the low numbered platforms at the terminus station I was in a rush but needed a coffee before I travelled further into the silver city and was trying to remember where the buffets were located It was as I was approaching the barriers that I saw a […]<\/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\/5389"}],"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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}