{"id":149,"date":"2010-09-11T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2010-09-11T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T23:09:10","slug":"happier-than-a-bean-in-long-thyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/happier-than-a-bean-in-long-thyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Happier than a bean in long thyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anniversaries are peculiar things. It&#8217;s been over a year now since the death of my father Brian. I was pretty low for the whole of August.<\/p>\n<p>One morning last month, Dad woke me up with a cup of tea. He turned up in a dream, walking into the room where I was trying to sleep, showing me concern. I haven&#8217;t dreamt about him since he died. In the dream, it was a shock to see his living face. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, it was a good dream, I woke up happy. It was great to see him.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was so nice to see him alive once more, and be reminded of his kind if sometimes inscrutable soul, that my gloom dispelled, and things have been easier since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zoe52\/497519595\/\" title=\"sprouting bean by Zoe52, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/230\/497519595_eac45a520f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"sprouting bean\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anniversaries are peculiar things. It&#8217;s been over a year now since the death of my father Brian. I was pretty low for the whole of August. One morning last month, Dad woke me up with a cup of tea. He turned up in a dream, walking into the room where I was trying to sleep, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}