{"id":603,"date":"2007-01-25T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/01\/yellow-plastic-eggcup\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T22:13:00","slug":"yellow-plastic-eggcup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/01\/yellow-plastic-eggcup\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Plastic Eggcup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a moment of clarity which came from unearthing an old yellow plastic eggcup which I realised came from my childhood. Some momentary trauma connected the eggcup with a buried memory. Why do I keep all this crap? I often ask myself. I suddenly knew, without a shadow of a doubt, the answer. <\/p>\n<p><b>To remember the things that were suppressed.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it can be shocking remembering, though. You never know what will emerge. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/yellow_plastic_eggcup.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I shook a little, at the childhood violence I remembered that I had experienced. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t panic much, thankfully. After a while I was laughing, and I was so glad of the love I have in my life. On the surface, I&#8217;d been privately brooding a bit since getting back from Palestine, weighing up the salient elements of my life, and I&#8217;ve come to some conclusions this week based on practical as well as emotional considerations.<\/p>\n<p>A little while back, I said I wanted to get into something real. I now know that process will be enabled by moving out of this trendy district of London months before I have been planning to do so. Today I went and bought storage boxes and <i>GGF<\/i> and I started looking at the map.<\/p>\n<p>I awoke with another cold. London is for a change fucking freezing, and so is this place, as the boiler is busted, but I don&#8217;t care now. We&#8217;re going north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a moment of clarity which came from unearthing an old yellow plastic eggcup which I realised came from my childhood. Some momentary trauma connected the eggcup with a buried memory. Why do I keep all this crap? I often ask myself. I suddenly knew, without a shadow of a doubt, the answer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}