{"id":5397,"date":"2020-11-15T19:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:29:37","slug":"the-ghost-of-tommy-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/the-ghost-of-tommy-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of Tommy Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For most of his adult life Tommy Parker wore a fez<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was wearing it when he was hit by the train<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And although Tommy was spread over many counties<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fez survived and was sold at auction soon after<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To a gentle man from Marseilles<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am that man and I walk the streets of this southern city<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying to make people laugh even though they are quite poor<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trouble is that because of my imperfect hearing<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not speak French very well<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My jokes fall on deaf ears and are misunderstood<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has caused me some concern and I am considering<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changing my name to Tommy Parker<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this will not happen as I have received threatening letters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From his ghost who is still sore with me as I now own the fez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of his adult life Tommy Parker wore a fez He was wearing it when he was hit by the train And although Tommy was spread over many counties The fez survived and was sold at auction soon after To a gentle man from Marseilles I am that man and I walk the streets [&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\/5397"}],"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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}