{"id":8309,"date":"2021-08-18T04:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2021-08-18T04:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T03:12:16","slug":"the-parcel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/18\/the-parcel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parcel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1937 a parcel was delivered to a small house in a Dorset village<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was never opened and placed in a cupboard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where it remained until about two weeks ago<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The parcel was addressed to one of the most celebrated spies that the UK has ever produced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her code name was Muriel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more was heard of Muriel after October 1937<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen at a local bakers collecting bread<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many theories have been put forward<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But none have solved her disappearance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This mystery is over eighty years old<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I first found the parcel I did not open it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I needed time to think<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But my curiosity got the better of me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I opened the small parcel in the kitchen yesterday morning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise it contained nothing more than a small cardboard box<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which in turn contained a photograph of Muriel which had been defaced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>My name is Julia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Had been crudely written on the photograph in blue ink<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1937 a parcel was delivered to a small house in a Dorset village &nbsp; It was never opened and placed in a cupboard &nbsp; Where it remained until about two weeks ago &nbsp; The parcel was addressed to one of the most celebrated spies that the UK has ever produced &nbsp; Her code name [&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\/8309"}],"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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}