{"id":3882,"date":"2016-03-27T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2016-03-27T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:03:34","slug":"another-link-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Another link gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_7803.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_7803.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This winter has seen off another of my mother&#8217;s creations &#8211; a Celtic mask. It was hanging on a nail on the wall by the patio and when the trampoline went walkabout in one of this winter&#8217;s storms, it was knocked off with a fairly predictable outcome.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">Lily tried valiantly to reassemble and glue it back together, but it became clear that that wasn&#8217;t going to really work. So on Friday I thanked it for its service, and consigned it to the bin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">Beyond its obvious value in being a connection to my mother, this piece had several other things going for it. It was one of her later pieces, which I had specifically chosen to own, as opposed to some of the things which have kind-of drifted into my possession. It was a departure from her usual style into things which she was hoping would appeal to a wider audience, and I&#8217;d say was largely successful. I also love that although it was a very successful recreation of Celtic style masks, I can see her &#8220;signature&#8221; style in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">So: dear mask, thank you for scaring the bejeezus out of small children, and giving me a link to my mother for a few years: \u00a0I now send you on your way. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter has seen off another of my mother&#8217;s creations &#8211; a Celtic mask. It was hanging on a nail on the wall by the patio and when the trampoline went walkabout in one of this winter&#8217;s storms, it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3882\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jude-the-obscure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}