{"id":837,"date":"2014-02-16T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=837"},"modified":"2014-02-16T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:59:34","slug":"the-southern-traveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/16\/the-southern-traveller\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Traveller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Taunton Station 1 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>A black cat looked<\/p>\n<p>at a glass of red wine<\/p>\n<p>in the sun lounge<\/p>\n<p>at the station<\/p>\n<p>it considered<\/p>\n<p>the feelings<\/p>\n<p>of the grapes<\/p>\n<p>as they were crushed<\/p>\n<p>I have arranged<\/p>\n<p>the seeds<\/p>\n<p>of these unfortunate grapes<\/p>\n<p>on the platform<\/p>\n<p><i>in remembrance\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Taunton Station 2<\/b><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you sleep<\/p>\n<p>in the rest room<\/p>\n<p>you will not dream of travelling<\/p>\n<p>but of cats<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Taunton Station 3<br \/>\n<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>When night falls<\/p>\n<p>the trains<\/p>\n<p>will be illuminated<\/p>\n<p>in celebration of your dreams<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Taunton Station 4<br \/>\n<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have never seen<\/p>\n<p>a ship passing by<\/p>\n<p>ships do not pass<\/p>\n<p>through Taunton Station<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Dawlish Black Swan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the night of the gentle storm<\/p>\n<p>a black swan sat next to me<\/p>\n<p>and discussed the voyages<\/p>\n<p>of Captain Van der Decken<\/p>\n<p>I did not listen as my train had arrived<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Travelling to Teignmouth <\/b><\/p>\n<p>When travelling to Teignmouth<\/p>\n<p>a mermaid sold me a ticket<\/p>\n<p>(as my station was closed)<\/p>\n<p>she asked to borrow my jacket<\/p>\n<p>as the wind (was turning) had changed<\/p>\n<p>and the she was on the later shift that evening<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taunton Station 1 A black cat looked at a glass of red wine in the sun lounge at the station it considered the feelings of the grapes as they were crushed I have arranged the seeds of these unfortunate grapes on the platform in remembrance\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Taunton Station 2 If you sleep in the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}