{"id":898,"date":"2014-03-23T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=898"},"modified":"2014-03-23T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T12:52:42","slug":"ard-ards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/23\/ard-ards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ard Ards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they drank from their upturned saucers<br \/>\nThe generals wept<br \/>\nThe battle was lost<\/p>\n<p>I carved into the sands<br \/>\nOf the country<br \/>\nThat was no longer mine<br \/>\nThe poem<br \/>\nArd Ards<br \/>\n<i>There was little else to do <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was not transported<br \/>\nAs the others were<br \/>\nBut ordered to collect flowers<br \/>\nFrom the battlefields<br \/>\nAs the new dictator did not want them damaged<br \/>\n<i>I was impressed at his compassion<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Soon I was promoted to the position of head gardener<br \/>\nResponsible for all the countries flowers<br \/>\nWith the exception of the primroses<br \/>\nWhich were the possessions of the church<\/p>\n<p>Secretly I stole these gentle flowers<br \/>\nAnd taught them to walk<br \/>\nWith the hope of raising an army<br \/>\nBut winter came and they withered and died<\/p>\n<p>My plot was uncovered<br \/>\nAnd I was exiled to The Midgham Primitive<br \/>\nWhere I spent my time carving<br \/>\nThe poem<br \/>\nArd Ards<br \/>\nInto the trunks of the petrified trees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they drank from their upturned saucers The generals wept The battle was lost I carved into the sands Of the country That was no longer mine The poem Ard Ards There was little else to do I was not transported As the others were But ordered to collect flowers From the battlefields As the [&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\/898"}],"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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}