{"id":877,"date":"2016-02-29T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-05-01T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T14:03:59","slug":"877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stone Mason&#8217;s Yard<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?attachment_id=878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY.jpg\" alt=\"4SMY\" width=\"997\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY.jpg 997w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4SMY-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFebruary is still a difficult month for me, seven years later &#8230; I often paint a picture for Steph. Last year, it was &#8220;Sledale&#8221;, on the way to the field where he is buried. My mother had reacted badly to the chemo, and the sky in my painting was very dark and brooding&#8230;<br \/>\nThis year I decided to paint the yard where I went to pick up the stone for Steph&#8217;s grave. I thought I would like a dark sky again, with a bit of blue on the edge, but my many attempts at painting rolling clouds failed. Instead, it&#8217;s nothing but blue sky.<br \/>\nI take it as a reflection of my mental state. I&#8217;m fine. I miss him, and think of him everyday, but rather than cry, I feel so priviledged to have known and loved him.<br \/>\nPS. This painting is now sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stone Mason&#8217;s Yard February is still a difficult month for me, seven years later &#8230; I often paint a picture for Steph. Last year, it was &#8220;Sledale&#8221;, on the way to the field where he is buried. My mother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}