{"id":916,"date":"2023-09-24T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=916"},"modified":"2023-09-24T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T08:23:53","slug":"short-stories-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/short-stories-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories #20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"101\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShortStories-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Two-thirds of the way through my collection of thirty short stories, <em>When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em>, is another short tale of the sea, &#8216;The Guests in the Crew Bar&#8217;. In overseas ports after weeks at sea, some of the crew would invariably meet ladies in bars and invite them back on board. Some captains turned a blind eye&#8230; others most certainly did not! Again, a short story means a short introduction!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This Captain was devoutly religious and had very fixed ideas about the crew&#8217;s women staying on board overnight. He had made it very clear to all his officers that by 23:00 there should be no ladies left aboard&#8230; so clear, in fact, that the third officer began to dread his evening on duty, certain that the old man would spend its last hours on deck looking down at the gangway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;The Guests in the Crew Bar&#8217; can be found in <em>When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> &#8211; available <a href=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/books\/\">here<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/-\/e\/B07P9R562F\">Amazo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/-\/e\/B07P9R562F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of the way through my collection of thirty short stories, When I Am Not Writing Poetry, is another short tale of the sea, &#8216;The Guests in the Crew Bar&#8217;. In overseas ports after weeks at sea, some of the crew would invariably meet ladies in bars and invite them back on board. Some captains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[19,39,71],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-short-stories","tag-when-i-am-not-writing-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}