{"id":9915,"date":"2022-02-13T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:17:19","slug":"ben-nathan-losing-a-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/ben-nathan-losing-a-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Nathan  \/ Losing a Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ben Nathan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Nathan lives by the sea<\/p>\n<p>He collects colourful sea shells<\/p>\n<p>In his much cherished low hours<\/p>\n<p>He then gives them to his sister Lou<\/p>\n<p>Who displays them in a blue terracotta dish<\/p>\n<p>Of late Ben has started collecting sea glass<\/p>\n<p>Which he uses to create silver necklaces<\/p>\n<p>With his Finnish girlfriend Val<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Losing a Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I went to bed late last night<\/p>\n<p>You were next to me in your red bed shirt<\/p>\n<p>But when I woke up this morning<\/p>\n<p>I found a naked piano sleeping next to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took my piano on the tube today<\/p>\n<p>And placed it next to the sliding doors<\/p>\n<p>As I knew that our journey would be long<\/p>\n<p>I had just finished reading the obituaries<\/p>\n<p>In my cold morning newspaper<\/p>\n<p>When I looked up and noticed<\/p>\n<p>That my piano had changed into a harpsichord<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I often take my piano to my naked yoga classes<\/p>\n<p>Which are held in a low church hall opposite my flat<\/p>\n<p>At first it was rather shy because of all the naked flesh<\/p>\n<p>But it soon became used to it and all the naked members<\/p>\n<p>Of the orchestra be they flutes tubas or drums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Nathan Ben Nathan lives by the sea He collects colourful sea shells In his much cherished low hours He then gives them to his sister Lou Who displays them in a blue terracotta dish Of late Ben has started collecting sea glass Which he uses to create silver necklaces With his Finnish girlfriend Val [&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-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}