{"id":325,"date":"2009-10-19T18:46:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=325"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","slug":"the-anniversary-of-a-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/the-anniversary-of-a-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The anniversary of a death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from <em>The Breathless Pause<\/em> by Moyra Caldecott<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The anniversary of a death<\/h3>\n<p>Trying to reconstruct a person<br \/>\non the anniversary of his death<br \/>\nyou must enter<br \/>\nthe labyrinth of memory<br \/>\nwith its twisting<br \/>\nand its turning,<br \/>\nits sudden shocks,<br \/>\nits false starts<br \/>\nand its blind alleys,<br \/>\nand its sudden revelations<br \/>\nof what you did not know you knew.<\/p>\n<p>Someone emerges<br \/>\nfrom the shadows,<br \/>\nfamiliar,<br \/>\nyet unfamiliar&#8230;<br \/>\nsubstantial<br \/>\nyet unsubstantial.<br \/>\nFading fast<br \/>\nleaving an ache behind&#8230;<br \/>\nand a question:<br \/>\nDid you ever really know him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moyra at St James Wine Vaults, Bath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from The Breathless Pause by Moyra Caldecott The anniversary of a death Trying to reconstruct a person on the anniversary of his death you must enter the labyrinth of memory with its twisting and its turning, its sudden shocks, its false starts and its blind alleys, and its sudden revelations of what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry","7":"tag-poetry","8":"tag-the-breathless-pause"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}