{"id":5476,"date":"2020-11-16T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T17:36:54","slug":"a-spot-of-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/16\/a-spot-of-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spot of Bother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was ready to elope with her engine driver<\/p>\n<p>They had made plans to move away<\/p>\n<p>But her brothers soon became aware of her cunning idea<\/p>\n<p>And tried to persuade her to stay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But she was blinded by her impossible love<\/p>\n<p>And her brothers had to protect their sister<\/p>\n<p>So they removed the rails of the driver\u2019s road<\/p>\n<p>Just to prove how much they would miss her<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Ulster in 1858 a girl fell in love with an engine driver and planned to elope with him on his train<\/p>\n<p>To stop this happening her brothers diverted the train into a bog<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With sincere apologises to William McGonagall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was ready to elope with her engine driver They had made plans to move away But her brothers soon became aware of her cunning idea And tried to persuade her to stay &nbsp; But she was blinded by her impossible love And her brothers had to protect their sister So they removed the rails [&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\/5476"}],"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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}