{"id":983,"date":"2014-05-03T19:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=983"},"modified":"2014-05-03T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:24:15","slug":"ladakh-and-the-magic-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/03\/ladakh-and-the-magic-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladakh and the Magic Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sunlight streamed on to the empty pews<br \/>\nand illuminated the mixed wood<br \/>\nI sat as I always did in the shadows near the Lady Chapel<\/p>\n<p>You were sitting in the pink desert looking<br \/>\nat the snow-capped mountains<br \/>\nwhich lay trapped in the middle distance of your view<\/p>\n<p>With happiness in your voice you told me<br \/>\nof the Buddhist stupas which raged radiantly<br \/>\nin the freezing wild winds<\/p>\n<p>You told me of the sudden hail storms<br \/>\nwith ice as sharp as knives<br \/>\ncutting all but the innocent down<\/p>\n<p>I replied and created the soft smells<br \/>\nof the church for you<br \/>\nI introduced you to the humble airs that cared for me<\/p>\n<p>Let us meet on the highest pass<br \/>\nyou said to me and taste<br \/>\nthe many colours that have dazzled<\/p>\n<p>But you knew that I would never leave<br \/>\nthe confines of my comfort<br \/>\nas you would never leave yours<\/p>\n<p>Yet we will walk hand in hand<br \/>\nacross the blush desert<br \/>\ntowards the magic mountains<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sunlight streamed on to the empty pews and illuminated the mixed wood I sat as I always did in the shadows near the Lady Chapel You were sitting in the pink desert looking at the snow-capped mountains which lay trapped in the middle distance of your view With happiness in your voice you told [&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\/983"}],"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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}