{"id":7496,"date":"2021-05-19T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2021-05-19T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:22:26","slug":"peaceful-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/peaceful-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was sitting on the top of the Number 28 with you<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were going to the cinema in the big town<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You were reading\u00a0<em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>\u00a0and I was looking out of the steamy windows<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The countryside was drab as it always was in the winter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything was saturated and dull<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My grandmother was dying she was not expected to last the day<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her family had gathered around her last bed<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had excused myself by saying that I did not want to see her die<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And preferred to remember the years when she was full of life<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My explanation gathered much sympathy from my elders<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You met me at the bus stop and was wearing my favourite sweater<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were both looking forward\u00a0 to the darkness and warmth of the cinema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting on the top of the Number 28 with you We were going to the cinema in the big town You were reading\u00a0Wuthering Heights\u00a0and I was looking out of the steamy windows The countryside was drab as it always was in the winter Everything was saturated and dull My grandmother was dying she [&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\/7496"}],"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=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}