{"id":8219,"date":"2021-08-08T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T12:33:33","slug":"distance-from-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/08\/distance-from-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance from Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I showered on the Saint Andre bus as always<\/p>\n<p>And read a book of poetry that I had found in the road<\/p>\n<p>I was due to start my new job in a month and a half<\/p>\n<p>But the prospect of this new employment did not excite me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Near my home on the Kent coast a P&amp;O Ferry<\/p>\n<p>Was becalmed in the shallows of the lawn<\/p>\n<p>Or so I thought as it was really waiting for its cargo<\/p>\n<p>Without incurring exorbitant harbour fees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How beautiful she was in the evening light<\/p>\n<p>I told the captain that life shrinks if you unwrap it<\/p>\n<p>He smiled and told me that I would miss my plants<\/p>\n<p>Which I had left in my house on La Reunion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I showered on the Saint Andre bus as always And read a book of poetry that I had found in the road I was due to start my new job in a month and a half But the prospect of this new employment did not excite me &nbsp; Near my home on the Kent coast [&hellip;]<\/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-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}