{"id":1315,"date":"2011-10-03T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:59:52","slug":"whats-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite often on the beach I find interesting sand erosion patterns; or entire dead birds and sea animals; or parts of non-marine animals such as goats and chickens, plus flowers fruits and candles,\u00a0telling of\u00a0offerings made from the beach\u00a0to someone in the spirit world.\u00a0 Some days more than others there is also debris in among the seaweed shells and drift wood, objects like those I collaged here,\u00a0suggesting things lost and discarded.\u00a0\u00a0We could speculate on what\u00a0lies between each lost or abandoned object – a toy, shoe, drinks cooler, or breast enhancer from inside a bra …..<\/p>\n

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We would never know\u00a0 if\u00a0we were somewhere vaguely near the true story of how this object came here, or\u00a0what the next stage on its journey is.\u00a0 Will someone come along and pick it up before it is washed away again, and use it?\u00a0It might\u00a0be interesting to choose one such thing and make up a story about it.\u00a0 Or perhaps\u00a0write a series of short stories on each of the objects here … hmmmm\u00a0and maybe\u00a0I have spent a bit much time this morning reading reviews of books and stories other people have written to help build up the list of books to be ordered for the book group I belong to.\u00a0\u00a0But for every author, there is always something that provides the starting point for their writing, something someone says or does, or something that appears or is found.\u00a0 This morning I read a reviewer’s words along the lines that in places the reader has the impression of overhearing a long\u00a0 phone conversation\/chat between two friends including all the inconsequential little bits. I\u00a0sometimes notice and am often amused by the amazing things people say in public toilets – I mean people who are clearly friends\u00a0and while each is\u00a0occupied in their\u00a0loo cubicle\u00a0they just continue their conversation for anyone to hear over the tinkling, farts and flushing !<\/p>\n

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Quite often on the beach I find interesting sand erosion patterns; or entire dead birds and sea animals; or parts of non-marine animals such as goats and chickens, plus flowers fruits and candles,\u00a0telling of\u00a0offerings made from the beach\u00a0to someone in the spirit world.\u00a0 Some days more than others there is also debris in among the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[168,295,177,167],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beach","tag-inspiration","tag-jestam","tag-sand-tracks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-ld","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}