Do you remember that day on the beach when you put on your yellow vest as the sun was so fierce<\/p>\n
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I can remember the day clearly as it was when you took our first born to the sea so that he could paddle with you<\/p>\n
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On your canary yellow vest<\/p>\n
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Was written<\/p>\n
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RELAX<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The design was popular at the time and was a tie in to a popular song which was played often on the radio<\/p>\n \n It was sung by<\/p>\n \n Frankie Goes to Hollywood<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n But he was not there that day as I watched you from the advantage of a parasol<\/p>\n \n \u00a0Paddling in the sea wearing just your yellow vest<\/p>\n \n Although the day was hot the sea was not as calm and you soon returned to the sanctuary of the beach<\/p>\n \n You handed me your drenched vest to place on a nearby rock<\/p>\n \n As you constructed a makeshift tent<\/p>\n \n So that our sleepy children could relax away from the heat of the afternoon<\/p>\n \n It is often said that the past is another country<\/p>\n \n But I do not consider that we have ever travelled far from that country<\/p>\n \n The vest may have worn thin<\/p>\n \n And the group disbanded<\/p>\n \n The radio no longer plays their popular song<\/p>\n \n But we still sit on that beach<\/p>\n \n And watch the years as they travel by<\/p>\n On summer afternoons such as the one remembered<\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you remember that day on the beach when you put on your yellow vest as the sun was so fierce I can remember the day clearly as it was when you took our first born to the sea so that he could paddle with you On your canary yellow vest Was written RELAX \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}