{"id":7577,"date":"2021-05-28T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2021-05-28T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:30:50","slug":"an-afternoon-on-the-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/an-afternoon-on-the-beach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Afternoon on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent an afternoon on the beach with Jane<\/p>\n<p>Nothing happened yet a lot conspired to happen<\/p>\n<p>I dropped a sharp pebble ino Jane&#8217;s beach bag<\/p>\n<p><em>(As I collect pebbles and fossils)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And remarkably it punctured a can of cider which slowly leaked<\/p>\n<p>For about twenty minutes during which time<\/p>\n<p>I calculated the possibilities of repeating this feat<\/p>\n<p>10000\/1 or maybe 10000\/1 or infinity + 7<\/p>\n<p>Our daughter who is a special needs teacher joined us on the beach<\/p>\n<p>And I shot three movies on my phone of the leaking can<\/p>\n<p>I called my phone movies <em>Play it as it Lays<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a book that my daughter was proposing to lend to me<\/p>\n<p>At about four in the afternoon we left the beach<\/p>\n<p>And walked for a while with our daughter<\/p>\n<p>We parted by the necessary hedge<\/p>\n<p>And took a short cut towards our house<\/p>\n<p>It was then that Jane noticed a Spitfire flying overhead<\/p>\n<p>I chose to make another phone movie in homage to the skies<\/p>\n<p>At present it remains untitled but I think I will call it Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent an afternoon on the beach with Jane Nothing happened yet a lot conspired to happen I dropped a sharp pebble ino Jane&#8217;s beach bag (As I collect pebbles and fossils) And remarkably it punctured a can of cider which slowly leaked For about twenty minutes during which time I calculated the possibilities [&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\/7577"}],"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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}