{"id":2930,"date":"2007-01-31T08:07:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/it-will-feel-strange\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T13:07:36","slug":"it-will-feel-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/it-will-feel-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It will feel strange &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Marks\">Leo Marks<\/a>, on hearing of an old couple who died within days of one another, and were buried together:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will feel strange<br \/>\nNot to nudge you<br \/>\nOr to talk to you<br \/>\nOr keep you warm<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re lying there<br \/>\nOnly a few feet away<br \/>\nOr perhaps even less<br \/>\nBut we shall get used to it in time<br \/>\nOf which we&#8217;ll have plenty <\/p>\n<p>We always treasured silences<br \/>\nIn which we said everything<br \/>\nWe shall continue to treasure them<br \/>\nAnd to say everything<br \/>\nThroughout the longest silence of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&mdash; from <em>Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker&#8217;s Story 1941-1945<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Marks, on hearing of an old couple who died within days of one another, and were buried together: It will feel strange Not to nudge you Or to talk to you Or keep you warm When you&#8217;re lying there Only a few feet away Or perhaps even less But we shall get used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[951,1121,166,1366,365,200,1071,184,571,1269,923,309],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-eep","tag-long","tag-old","tag-quote","tag-red","tag-talk","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-twee","tag-ugh","tag-uri","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}