{"id":355,"date":"2010-06-23T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:23","slug":"23-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/23-april-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"23 April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a photograph<br \/>\nof the canal in Bath<br \/>\nby the door leading out<br \/>\nof my living room,<br \/>\ntaken the day after my husband died.<br \/>\nA house reflected in the canal.<br \/>\nThe real house windows are dark\u2026<br \/>\nno lights on\u2026<br \/>\nbut the reflection<br \/>\nhas windows blazing with light<br \/>\nfrom the setting sun.<br \/>\nIt reminds me<br \/>\nMy husband\u2019s earthly life<br \/>\nWas ended, and dark,<br \/>\nBut he still lives<br \/>\nin the light of the mansion<br \/>\nin the Otherworld.<\/p>\n<p>I went often to the canal after that.<br \/>\nI did not see the sign again \u2013<br \/>\nthe combination of a dark house<br \/>\nand blazing windows in the reflection.<br \/>\nIt was a \u201cone-off\u201d symbol<br \/>\ngiven to me<br \/>\nto teach me<br \/>\nand to comfort me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a photograph of the canal in Bath by the door leading out of my living room, taken the day after my husband died. A house reflected in the canal. The real house windows are dark\u2026 no lights on\u2026 but the reflection has windows blazing with light from the setting sun. It reminds me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-diary","7":"category-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}