{"id":6132,"date":"2020-12-28T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2020-12-28T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T10:23:17","slug":"an-inward-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/28\/an-inward-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inward Gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Your tread is silent<\/em> I said to Miriam as we walked along the winter beach<\/p>\n<p><em>It is almost as if you are sea ghost emerging from the fragile mists\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although she was listening to me Miriam kept her head bowed<\/p>\n<p>The day was beautiful as late December days often are<\/p>\n<p>With a sun so cold in the sky but so white in her illumination<\/p>\n<p><em>Why do you keep your head bowed my gentle friend\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am aware of the outstanding beauty of the day Clive<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But my gaze will remain inwards as that is what I choose\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is a deep beauty in the inward gaze as it inhibits temptation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your tread is silent I said to Miriam as we walked along the winter beach It is almost as if you are sea ghost emerging from the fragile mists\u00a0 Although she was listening to me Miriam kept her head bowed The day was beautiful as late December days often are With a sun so cold [&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\/6132"}],"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=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}