{"id":8497,"date":"2021-09-09T19:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:56:41","slug":"folkestone-hard-and-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/folkestone-hard-and-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Folkestone Hard and Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It was one of those hot clear days<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That Folkestone sees so much of\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With every colour incredibly bright\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And every outline hard and defined<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jane and I were walking along The Leas<\/p>\n<p>And admiring the spectacular views out to sea<\/p>\n<p>The temperature was touching twenty eight degrees<\/p>\n<p>It was so hot that the breeze had faded to almost nothing<\/p>\n<p>We stopped for a while and shared a bitter iced coffee<\/p>\n<p>It was then that Jane found a slip of paper hidden in a book<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Whose description of Folkestone is this<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It appears to have been written by HG Wells<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why would he have written this\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because he lived near Sandgate for a while\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is his house still standing\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then may we see it\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is a private residence now<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then we shall admire it from afar<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>William has just finished reading<\/p>\n<p><em>The War of the Worlds\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He knows that life is possible on Mars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jane has yet to read her new book<\/p>\n<p><em>The History of Mr Polly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But she has read the note enclosed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of those hot clear days That Folkestone sees so much of\u00a0 With every colour incredibly bright\u00a0 And every outline hard and defined &nbsp; Jane and I were walking along The Leas And admiring the spectacular views out to sea The temperature was touching twenty eight degrees It was so hot that the [&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-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","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=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}