{"id":578,"date":"2007-05-29T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:11:43","slug":"only-just-a-bit-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Only just a bit creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this portrait years ago, and it&#8217;s been reposing in the barn at Horton Landing (where I&#8217;ve been busily cleaning and organizing for the last few days): <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/520771253\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/254\/520771253_d7a9afc49d.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"500\" alt=\"the Gold Locket portrait\" \/><\/a><br \/>I know very little about its subject, but presume that she died before it was done &#8211;such memorials were common in Nova Scotia parlours in the late 19th century. Attached to the lower corner is a photograph that I can&#8217;t squeeze any more out of than this:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/520771727\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/240\/520771727_fbc83d4295_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"187\" alt=\"attached to the Gold Locket portrait\" \/><\/a><br \/>You can fill in the rest of the story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this portrait years ago, and it&#8217;s been reposing in the barn at Horton Landing (where I&#8217;ve been busily cleaning and organizing for the last few days): I know very little about its subject, but presume that she died before it was done &#8211;such memorials were common in Nova Scotia parlours in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova-scotia","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}