{"id":6430,"date":"2021-01-29T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:59:15","slug":"the-palace-of-the-popes-lavender-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/29\/the-palace-of-the-popes-lavender-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palace of the Popes  (Lavender Fields)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not far from the main entrance of the Palace of the Popes a solitary musician played slow jazz under the hot Avignon sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My wife and I were sheltering under some trees and were enjoying a light lunch<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It felt that the day would never run its full course as the sun seemed stationary in the clear sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as we were finishing lunch a perfumer came up to my wife and gave her a small bottle of perfume<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He gave me a book of letters written by Mme De Sevigne and requested that should visit his shop before we left France<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I enquired of his kindness and he explained that my wife resembled his beautiful daughter who now lived in a chateau not far from Avignon<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His son was a jazz musician and he saw him each day but he only saw his daughter once a month and this grieved him<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We visited the shop of the perfumer and my wife was treated with a great courtesy and was soon asked whether a perfume might be named after her<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She agreed immediately and was told that the perfume would have a lavender base as fields of lavender surrounded the chateau where his daughter now lived<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perfume was to be called \u00a0<em>Champs de Lavande<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not far from the main entrance of the Palace of the Popes a solitary musician played slow jazz under the hot Avignon sun My wife and I were sheltering under some trees and were enjoying a light lunch It felt that the day would never run its full course as the sun seemed stationary in [&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\/6430"}],"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=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}