{"id":6719,"date":"2021-03-08T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:25:40","slug":"tales-from-port-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/tales-from-port-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from Port Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Port Said for many years<\/p>\n<p>Even though I am English by birth<\/p>\n<p>Over this time I consider that the city has declined<\/p>\n<p>As it is scruffy hot and overcrowded<\/p>\n<p>The mermaids in the sea have been hunted into extinction<\/p>\n<p>Leaving only the sirens in the outer waters<\/p>\n<p>I am quite friendly with these creatures<\/p>\n<p>And often photograph them for glossy magazines<\/p>\n<p>In return they leave my fishing boat alone<\/p>\n<p>And they frequently join me in the cabin below<\/p>\n<p>To listen to my tales of the old country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Port Said for many years Even though I am English by birth Over this time I consider that the city has declined As it is scruffy hot and overcrowded The mermaids in the sea have been hunted into extinction Leaving only the sirens in the outer waters I am quite friendly [&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\/6719"}],"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=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}