{"id":9068,"date":"2021-11-01T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:06:42","slug":"francis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/francis-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am recovering from an eye operation and am resting in a darkened room<\/p>\n<p>Although improving my sight will take a while to return<\/p>\n<p>My daughter recently travelled to Suffolk and purchased a grey tee shirt for me<\/p>\n<p>Which I have chosen to wear in this terrible place<\/p>\n<p>The garment I am told has an illustration of a number of paint brushes in a melted pot<\/p>\n<p>There is also a quotation from the artist Francis Bacon which reads\u00a0 <em>I painted to be loved<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was very touched by this gift and have arranged for my daughter to be given a banded pebble<\/p>\n<p>This was the final pebble that I found on the beach before my operation<\/p>\n<p>It is safely stored in a cellophane bag to ensure it is not damaged or scratched<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am recovering from an eye operation and am resting in a darkened room Although improving my sight will take a while to return My daughter recently travelled to Suffolk and purchased a grey tee shirt for me Which I have chosen to wear in this terrible place The garment I am told has an [&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-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","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=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}