{"id":5726,"date":"2020-11-20T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2020-11-20T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:38:28","slug":"west-of-east-grinstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/west-of-east-grinstead\/","title":{"rendered":"West of East Grinstead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent by childhood living in an house<\/p>\n<p>That was situated between the High Level and Low Level stations<\/p>\n<p>In East Grinstead<\/p>\n<p>It was a blissful childhood as my father was the stationmaster of the High Level Station<\/p>\n<p>And my mother was the stationmaster at the Low Level station<\/p>\n<p>I also had a twice adopted sister who made the scones and looked after the buffets two<\/p>\n<p>When I was thirteen my parents emigrated to New Guinea with my thrice adopted sister<\/p>\n<p>They sold our house which was named Equidistant due to its location between the stations and left me alone<\/p>\n<p>For a while I travelled the world and when I was fourteen I married a branch line in East Kent<\/p>\n<p>I now live in the main bus station in Stoke-on-Trent where I am employed as an interior designer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watching Trains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My East Grinstead years were often illuminated by the visits of my beautiful cousin<\/p>\n<p>Who although she looked like a rabbit was the image of my thrice adopted sister<\/p>\n<p>We were both very keen on train spotting and shared our shifts<\/p>\n<p>Between the High Level and Low Level stations although the hours were long<\/p>\n<p>On Sundays there were no trains so we both went to the local places of worship<\/p>\n<p>Where we counted both the High Church and Low Church hymn books<\/p>\n<p>My cousin is now the Japanese Prime Minister<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent by childhood living in an house That was situated between the High Level and Low Level stations In East Grinstead It was a blissful childhood as my father was the stationmaster of the High Level Station And my mother was the stationmaster at the Low Level station I also had a twice adopted [&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\/5726"}],"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=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}