{"id":5499,"date":"2020-11-16T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2020-11-16T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:02:58","slug":"the-open-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/16\/the-open-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At about five in the evening the skies began to darken<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And banks of clouds soon hung heavily above the town<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning could be seen deep at sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there was no rain<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just hot winds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That swirled and played<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With unconscious abandon<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along the coastal roads<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then without warning the rains arrived<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Violent in their impact<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0But warm to the touch<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crowds that had come to watch the carnival<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evaporated in seconds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaving the theatre clear<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Electricity was everywhere<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The storm had arrived<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>On Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July 2019 Deal enjoyed temperatures in excess of thirty- three degrees but the heat triggered violent thunderstorms which continued throughout the night\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about five in the evening the skies began to darken And banks of clouds soon hung heavily above the town Lightning could be seen deep at sea But there was no rain Just hot winds That swirled and played With unconscious abandon Along the coastal roads And then without warning the rains arrived Violent [&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\/5499"}],"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=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}