{"id":722,"date":"2014-01-04T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=722"},"modified":"2014-01-04T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:40:14","slug":"letter-from-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/letter-from-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest<\/p>\n<p>As you may be aware Toby and I are currently in the Lake District. The weather is wonderful as I hope it is for you although the newspaper\u2019s report quite dreadful weather where you are stationed. I trust that they are erroneous in their reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Today we visited the <i>Screes at Wastwater<\/i> which I think must resemble your battlefields in certain lights. I trust that your uniform is nice and clean again and that you have none of those beastly bullet holes or shrapnel wounds soiling that lovely material. It is such a bore making you smart for battle again.<\/p>\n<p>As I write little Toby is running a cedar twig along the surface of the lake. He is missing you very much and has prepared a small drawing for you (which I enclose along with your usual Holy Water). He has entitled it <i>\u201c The Rat Tat Tat of the Gatling Cat \u201c <\/i>\u00a0I hope it brings you pleasure during the bloody battles to come.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we are going to visit <i>Nab Cottage<\/i> which was formally the residence of Mr Coleridge. I am looking forward to such a fun filled day. Do think of our joy as you slaughter the unfortunates.<\/p>\n<p>I must close now as tea awaits and Toby is getting increasingly excited by the <i>French Delights<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>V<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest As you may be aware Toby and I are currently in the Lake District. The weather is wonderful as I hope it is for you although the newspaper\u2019s report quite dreadful weather where you are stationed. I trust that they are erroneous in their reporting. Today we visited the Screes at Wastwater which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}