{"id":8119,"date":"2021-07-30T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:30:40","slug":"a-festival-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/30\/a-festival-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Festival of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virgin on the Baroque<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is a clothes shop in Huddersfield<\/p>\n<p>I have never visited this shop<\/p>\n<p>As I live in Littlehampton<\/p>\n<p>This has left me at a slight disadvantage<\/p>\n<p>As I have decided to write a poem about this shop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Much Do You Love Your Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a dog that I have named<\/p>\n<p><em>How Much Do You Love Your Friends<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I do not think that the dog is aware of his name<\/p>\n<p>As it ignores me when I tell it not to shit on the beach<\/p>\n<p>I know that this is illegal but the last warden drowned himself<\/p>\n<p>So I pay my imaginary fines promptly to an imaginary country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soul Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The soul is quite lonely in some people<\/p>\n<p>Whereas in others it is busier<\/p>\n<p>Quite why is unclear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soul Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have given this much thought<\/p>\n<p>And have not come up with an answer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soul Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although I have noted that some people<\/p>\n<p>Never take the time to close their eyes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I had not found you and educated you<\/p>\n<p>Then you would still be swinging around in the trees<\/p>\n<p>So how do you thank me you just shit on my lawn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin on the Baroque Is a clothes shop in Huddersfield I have never visited this shop As I live in Littlehampton This has left me at a slight disadvantage As I have decided to write a poem about this shop &nbsp; How Much Do You Love Your Friends I have a dog that I have [&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\/8119"}],"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=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}