{"id":7144,"date":"2021-04-20T00:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2021-04-20T00:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T23:19:14","slug":"visit-to-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/visit-to-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am planning to visit Canterbury tomorrow to pick up a novel by Thomas Pynchon<\/p>\n<p>After my purchase I might visit the cathedral which although currently undergoing restoration is still quite beautiful and rewarding<\/p>\n<p>As I pass hidden amongst the summer crowds I wonder how many of them will care to know who I am<\/p>\n<p>I am the author of one of the most popular books of the last ten years which has spawned a film and many imitations<\/p>\n<p>Most people know me as Stephen Masefield which is not my real name and I am not photographed without my express permission which I rarely give<\/p>\n<p>Even then I usually grow a beard as a form of disguise to avoid recognition<\/p>\n<p>The last time that I visited Canterbury I sat in a park near the river and noticed a couple of people reading my novel<\/p>\n<p>My passing presence was not even worth a glance which pleased me as I enjoy my anonymity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>SMO (6\/21)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am planning to visit Canterbury tomorrow to pick up a novel by Thomas Pynchon After my purchase I might visit the cathedral which although currently undergoing restoration is still quite beautiful and rewarding As I pass hidden amongst the summer crowds I wonder how many of them will care to know who I am [&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\/7144"}],"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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}