{"id":8595,"date":"2021-09-16T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2021-09-16T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:07:24","slug":"john-b-at-st-p-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/john-b-at-st-p-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John B at St P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I am standing here with my stellar friends in front of your statue<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You watch the trains arrive and leave with the pleasure of a child on its first outing<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St P is splendid again and this was partly down to you and your friends<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is now the gateway to the near continent<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris is only a matter of hours away<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hundreds of people steal your likeness every day<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pretty girls touch the tails of your coat<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst mature matrons exchange nostalgic memories<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And chat excitedly amongst themselves<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As they consume prawn sandwiches freshly made<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way I am jealous of your captivity in this vast train shed<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am always on the move nothing stops for me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you stand here cheerful in your disposition<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have completed your journeys<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing more awaits you<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friends and I toast you with our silly glasses full of fizz<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are off to France on the five fifteen<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would like you to join us but know you cannot come<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You wish us a good journey with your knowing smile<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safe in the knowledge that your sleep is yet to be shared<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I am standing here with my stellar friends in front of your statue You watch the trains arrive and leave with the pleasure of a child on its first outing St P is splendid again and this was partly down to you and your friends It is now the gateway to the near continent Paris [&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\/8595"}],"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=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}