{"id":7204,"date":"2021-04-23T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:30:04","slug":"holland-park-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/holland-park-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland Park in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the first day in the Spanish city Holland Park visited the naturist beach where he had agreed to meet his boyfriend Notting Hill<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To pass the time he was reading\u00a0<em>The Princes and Perfumes of Persia\u00a0<\/em>and was watching the bronzed bodies at play around him<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They reminded him of the mighty Moors hat had once ruled great areas of Spain<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After about an hour his boyfriend sat down near him and kissed him on the cheek<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But he was not alone as he had brought the female flutist from the orchestra whose name was Shepherds Bush<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trio spent the rest of the morning on the beach until the sun was too hot and then after dressing retired to a city bar<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Notting Hill and Shepherds Bush were due to be involved in a concert of classical guitar music that evening in the Hall of the Seven Seas<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The showpiece was the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo which was always popular<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the bar the radio was playing\u00a0<em>Music was my Sister Bitch\u00a0<\/em>the new song from the punk group Fuck Me Raw<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the lyrics were slightly banal the music had an energy to it<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This turned Holland Park on and he whispered into his boyfriend\u2019s ear suggesting a liaison in his hotel room<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just for fun<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the flutist could join in if she so desired<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that was how they spent the afternoon in a sweaty room on the sixth floor of a city hotel which had extensive views of the Sagrada Familia \u00a0on its left hand side<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day in the Spanish city Holland Park visited the naturist beach where he had agreed to meet his boyfriend Notting Hill To pass the time he was reading\u00a0The Princes and Perfumes of Persia\u00a0and was watching the bronzed bodies at play around him They reminded him of the mighty Moors hat had once [&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\/7204"}],"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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}