{"id":9473,"date":"2021-12-12T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2021-12-12T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:44:38","slug":"the-lost-alexandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/12\/the-lost-alexandra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Alexandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and I had travelled to Folkestone on a dull December day<\/p>\n<p>We walked along the cloud high promenade and followed<\/p>\n<p>The Lost Alexandra as she hung high above the silver sea<\/p>\n<p>She soon disappeared from view into the low grey sheet skies<\/p>\n<p>So we switched our attentions to the bright lights<\/p>\n<p>That illuminated this coastal town and its harbour arm<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas market was being held<\/p>\n<p>On each of the station platforms one and two<\/p>\n<p>It was whilst we were there that it started to rain<\/p>\n<p>But we were not showered by droplets of rain<\/p>\n<p>Only by the mists of the coloured sea glass<\/p>\n<p>That had drifted in from the brilliant sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Folkestone 11\/12\/21<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and I had travelled to Folkestone on a dull December day We walked along the cloud high promenade and followed The Lost Alexandra as she hung high above the silver sea She soon disappeared from view into the low grey sheet skies So we switched our attentions to the bright lights That illuminated this [&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-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","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=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions\/9476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}