{"id":8288,"date":"2021-08-15T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2021-08-15T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T09:10:46","slug":"slough-and-brutalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/slough-and-brutalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Slough and Brutalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people out there<\/p>\n<p>Who do not appreciate Brutalism<\/p>\n<p>I feel very sorry for these people<\/p>\n<p>Up to about ten years ago<\/p>\n<p>There was a bus station in Slough<\/p>\n<p>Which was absolutely beautiful<\/p>\n<p>But it was much hated<\/p>\n<p>By the people of Slough and was demolished<\/p>\n<p>It was replaced by a rather odd looking building<\/p>\n<p>Which I confess that I rather like<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its destruction I wrote<\/p>\n<p>That they should demolish Slough and its people<\/p>\n<p>And leave the lovely bus station for me to enjoy<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I am waiting for the numbers 6 or 28 to Windsor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryde Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When they demolished Ryde Tower<\/p>\n<p>I must confess I wept as it was so beautiful<\/p>\n<p>The destruction aggravated my fear of flying<\/p>\n<p>And now I work full time in a bakery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people out there Who do not appreciate Brutalism I feel very sorry for these people Up to about ten years ago There was a bus station in Slough Which was absolutely beautiful But it was much hated By the people of Slough and was demolished It was replaced by a rather odd [&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\/8288"}],"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=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}