{"id":5526,"date":"2020-11-17T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2020-11-17T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:25:50","slug":"soeurs-tendres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/soeurs-tendres\/","title":{"rendered":"Soeurs Tendres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the youngest of six children<\/p>\n<p>And was the only boy<\/p>\n<p>We were all born within a period of ten years<\/p>\n<p>But I was always treated as the baby of the group<\/p>\n<p>Which I enjoyed a great deal as I was doted upon<\/p>\n<p>My sisters all had names beginning with M<\/p>\n<p>Martha Mary Marlene Colin and Maude<\/p>\n<p>I was called Marcus Mark which was a name that I really enjoyed<\/p>\n<p>Especially as my second name was Millar<\/p>\n<p>My sisters satisfied my every need<\/p>\n<p>Both physically and mentally<\/p>\n<p>But I did not grow up spoilt<\/p>\n<p>Far from it<\/p>\n<p>They found me friends and I was given a cat each year for my birthday<\/p>\n<p>From an early age I wanted to be a Member of Parliament<\/p>\n<p>Which was not not surprising as we all lived in Henley-on-Thames<\/p>\n<p>Martha Mary Marlene Claudia Colin and Maude vetted all my girlfriends<\/p>\n<p>Which was very important as I attended many official functions<\/p>\n<p>At the age of twenty-three I became the MP for Henley-on-Thames<\/p>\n<p>It was the first by-election where nobody voted for the opposition as I was so good looking<\/p>\n<p>My sisters found me a wife who was rather plain<\/p>\n<p>But assured me that I could trade her in when I became a junior minister<\/p>\n<p>They kept their promise and rewarded me with a girlfriend who resembled a rabbit<\/p>\n<p>She was far brighter than me having received an Oxford first which helped me out no end<\/p>\n<p>As I travelled at speed up the party tree<\/p>\n<p>She and my sisters wrote all my speeches and shaped my comfortable views<\/p>\n<p>I am due to meet the Queen next week and will be asked to form the next government<\/p>\n<p>With my girlfriend who looks like a rabbit and my five sisters whose names begin with M<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to employ my many cats as political advisors as long as they do not mind travelling north<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the youngest of six children And was the only boy We were all born within a period of ten years But I was always treated as the baby of the group Which I enjoyed a great deal as I was doted upon My sisters all had names beginning with M Martha Mary Marlene [&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\/5526"}],"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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}