{"id":6836,"date":"2021-03-19T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:10:47","slug":"khat-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/khat-kitten\/","title":{"rendered":"Khat Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found him a boy of my own age sitting against a tree in my father\u2019s orchard<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought that he was asleep but a bullet wound just under his left ear confirmed to me that he was dead<\/p>\n<p>His hands were still warm although the sweat on his brow was sticky and cold<\/p>\n<p>I sat with him for a while so that he might have a companion on his long journey into eternity<\/p>\n<p>Tears of death had formed under his dark drooping eyelashes<\/p>\n<p>I waited for them to drop but they remained frozen in time<\/p>\n<p>As they sun reached its highest point I thought I heard voices in the orchard and faded into the early afternoon without a sound<\/p>\n<p>I left the boy soldier quite alone against my tree reliving the horrors of his earlier war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found him a boy of my own age sitting against a tree in my father\u2019s orchard At first I thought that he was asleep but a bullet wound just under his left ear confirmed to me that he was dead His hands were still warm although the sweat on his brow was sticky and [&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\/6836"}],"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=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}