When I was very young<\/p>\n
We used to live at a gas station<\/p>\n
Not far from the state line<\/p>\n
To the rear of our small house<\/p>\n
There were the Black Mountains<\/p>\n
Which was something of a misnomer<\/p>\n
As the peaks were snow covered<\/p>\n
For three of the four seasons each year<\/p>\n
My father owned a blue and red gas truck<\/p>\n
Which he tended to park away from the station<\/p>\n
For obvious reasons as lightning strikes were common<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When I was six a stranger with a thick mustache<\/p>\n
Stopped at our station as he had developed a flat<\/p>\n
He handed my father a white envelope<\/p>\n
And instructed that I should not open it<\/p>\n
Until I was twenty-one and unmarried<\/p>\n
I waited for the next fifteen years<\/p>\n
And on a rainy October day<\/p>\n
Examined the contents of the envelope<\/p>\n
I found a note that was ink faded but readable<\/p>\n
It read<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He who knows how to breathe the air of my writings\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Knows that it is an air of the heights\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A robust air\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n One has to be made for it\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Otherwise there is no small danger one will catch cold<\/em><\/p>\n The ice is near\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The solitude is terrible<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following day I ran away to the sea and have never returned<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ice is near<\/p>\n The solitude is terrible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was very young We used to live at a gas station Not far from the state line To the rear of our small house There were the Black Mountains Which was something of a misnomer As the peaks were snow covered For three of the four seasons each year My father owned a […]<\/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-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","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=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}