{"id":1808,"date":"2022-09-02T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:04:54","slug":"retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Grandad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">he fell on a beach<br>it was 1940 and over the sea<br>many years before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By the Coast : Fraisthorpe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As we strolled back to the campsite after speaking to the retiring technician I saw this couple looking out to sea, and thought of the loss of my own grandad who died with the Canadian Army on a beach in France. Of course the man in the photograph might not be the girl&#8217;s grandad, but that is photography, we never really know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a9 Stewart Wall, August 27th 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click below to read some recent Posts<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/the-seeing-dance-of-appfrod-photographers\/\">The Seeing Dance of AppFrod Photographers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trapped-in-memorial-yet-blooming\/\">Trapped in Memorial, Yet Blooming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/of-cameras-and-trains\/\">Of Cameras and Trains<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/3183\/\">Where the Trains Once Passed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/the-price-of-top-soil\/\">The Price of Top Soil<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandad he fell on a beachit was 1940 and over the seamany years before By the Coast : Fraisthorpe As we strolled back to the campsite after speaking to the retiring technician I saw this couple looking out to sea, and thought of the loss of my own grandad who died with the Canadian Army&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,27,15,16,35],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-diary","tag-fraisthorpe","tag-fuji-x100v","tag-haiku","tag-photohaiku","tag-walking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSCF1843_1_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}