{"id":6637,"date":"2021-02-28T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2021-02-28T18:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T18:23:25","slug":"walmer-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/28\/walmer-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmer Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched as two children ran happily between the cloud hedges<\/p>\n<p>Chasing their early March shadows under the low land sun<\/p>\n<p>How charming our situation was on this the brightest of afternoons<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I were sipping piping hot tea from bone china cups<\/p>\n<p>Being careful not to scald our lips even though the air was chilled<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of Hester Stanhope who during a short period<\/p>\n<p>Just over two hundred years ago transformed these gardens into what we see today<\/p>\n<p>She was to die many years later in almost total obscurity in a far off land<\/p>\n<p>But unlike many others has not been forgotten and her likeness can be discovered<\/p>\n<p>Deep within these magical gardens by those who are sharp of eye<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From the diary of Cecil Burns (March 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched as two children ran happily between the cloud hedges Chasing their early March shadows under the low land sun How charming our situation was on this the brightest of afternoons My wife and I were sipping piping hot tea from bone china cups Being careful not to scald our lips even though the [&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\/6637"}],"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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}