{"id":9002,"date":"2021-10-23T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2021-10-23T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:09:14","slug":"the-blue-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/the-blue-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even since I can remember there has been a blue ladder propped up against the barn<\/p>\n<p>My father who is a farmer tells me that he leaves it there so that the angels<\/p>\n<p>After hard days spent in the fields can return to Heaven without too much stress<\/p>\n<p>I had no reason to disbelieve him as only beautiful maidens work in our fields<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this when I was eight years old<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems so naive to my adult eyes as I have travelled widely and experienced much<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My father has since retired and I now own the farm yet the blue ladder remains in place<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I have never found a reason or have the inclination to consider its removal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even since I can remember there has been a blue ladder propped up against the barn My father who is a farmer tells me that he leaves it there so that the angels After hard days spent in the fields can return to Heaven without too much stress I had no reason to disbelieve him [&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-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002","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=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}