{"id":12468,"date":"2018-02-13T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:10:53","slug":"mis-remembering-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2018\/02\/13\/mis-remembering-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Mis-remembering the old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Another postcard from the land of grief<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when living abroad, even the things you did not really like about the old country take on a rosy glow which they never had before.Scented with a whiff of nostalgia, they become better than they ever were.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I never really liked Valentine&#8217;s Day. The choice of cards for a man to give to a woman are frequently daft or rude, and the gifts are overpriced or silly. I shall probably always regret that the last Valentine&#8217;s gift I bought was a fridge magnet saying &#8220;I love you, even though you steal the duvet&#8221;. I would gladly have it stolen 1000 times over right now! In short, I am not looking forward to Valentine&#8217;s Day 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I shall simply be grateful to God for the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/2018\/01\/29\/alone-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">companionship<\/a> he has provided in this season of turbulent adjustment &#8211; described so eloquently in the two images below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12469\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz-1024x633.png\" alt=\"shadowz\" width=\"584\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz-1024x633.png 1024w, http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz-300x185.png 300w, http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz-768x475.png 768w, http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz-485x300.png 485w, http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shadowz.png 1037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another postcard from the land of grief Sometimes, when living abroad, even the things you did not really like about the old country take on a rosy glow which they never had before.Scented with a whiff of nostalgia, they become &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2018\/02\/13\/mis-remembering-the-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12470,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}