{"id":7476,"date":"2021-05-19T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2021-05-19T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:00:14","slug":"quincunx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/quincunx\/","title":{"rendered":"Quincunx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my days of imprisonment<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I often drew geometrical patterns<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the walls of my cell<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was until my pencil was confiscated<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I felt alone in the world yet surrounded by friends<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A kind prison guard later offered me a wooden dice<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On condition that I did not vandalise my cell<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I accepted and progressed to playing cards and later dominos<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These I kept with my dice in a wooden box next to my Bible<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was released I took a job designing orchards for my rich patrons<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who had forgiven me for my dishonesty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my days of imprisonment I often drew geometrical patterns On the walls of my cell That was until my pencil was confiscated I felt alone in the world yet surrounded by friends A kind prison guard later offered me a wooden dice On condition that I did not vandalise my cell I accepted 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\/7476"}],"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=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}