{"id":14137,"date":"2023-05-07T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14137"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:09:59","slug":"a-stone-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/a-stone-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stone in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have visited the same village in South Devon on many occasions <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has a beautiful church which is much loved by those in the village <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The graveyard is the quietest one that I have ever visited <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to be trapped in time and there is a feeling of total serenity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One grave has always remained with me and I think of it often <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I discovered it on my first visit and have been fascinated ever since <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It commemorates the short life of a girl named Dora <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who died in December 1916 aged only sixteen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One can even over one hundred years later feel the rawness of this tragedy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what I find interesting is that the dates of her parents and siblings are also recorded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This act as an unseen timeline stretching over a large span of years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the last recorded dates being well within living memory <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a history of a family unknown to me carved in stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I am haunted on each visit but am glad of my journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have visited the same village in South Devon on many occasions It has a beautiful church which is much loved by those in the village The graveyard is the quietest one that I have ever visited It seems to be trapped in time and there is a feeling of total serenity One grave has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137","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=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14140,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}