{"id":8714,"date":"2021-09-27T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:03:50","slug":"two-restoration-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/two-restoration-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Restoration Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Emma-Lou Fitzgerald<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma-Lou Fitzgerald knew John Wilmot who was the Second Earl of Rochester and he wrote a great deal of his early poetry on her bare back<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He instructed her not to bathe for fear of loss but she disobeyed him and on a chilly March day bathed in the River Stour<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Wilmot never forgave Emma-Lou for her indiscretion and wrote his future works on her twelve sisters who were known not to bathe<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Confession of Emma\u2019s Seventh Sister<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Wilmot the Second Earl of Rochester once wrote a poem on my pretty backside<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have never read his poem as I am forbidden mirrors<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I am told that it reads as follows<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>We have a pretty witty king<br \/>\nAnd whose word no man relies on<br \/>\nHe never said a foolish thing<br \/>\nAnd never did a wise one<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John liked his poem so much that he instructed that it be tattooed on my posterior for posterity<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He told me never to bare my bottom in front of the King which is becoming increasingly difficult as the King has asked me to become his mistress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma-Lou Fitzgerald Emma-Lou Fitzgerald knew John Wilmot who was the Second Earl of Rochester and he wrote a great deal of his early poetry on her bare back He instructed her not to bathe for fear of loss but she disobeyed him and on a chilly March day bathed in the River Stour John Wilmot [&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\/8714"}],"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=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}