{"id":439,"date":"2013-12-01T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:55:00","slug":"a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"A new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #7a4d00;\">\u201cI\u2019ve found a place you need to look at.\u201d Was what Mom greeted me with on my return home that fateful day.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a4d00;\"> She said it calmly, but one look at her tense bright eyes gave the game away. She was bursting with excitement. We had tea and she talked.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a4d00;\"> Mom was an inveterate explorer. Left on her own while I working, Mom explored the countryside. She was never happy in the boring house we had moved to after leaving The Reef. She\u2019d fixed up the garden and planted trees and Proteas. Repainted and refurnished, and still it remained just a house. It was too close to the saw mill and the brick making kilns to ever be quiet or truly dark at night. Her soul rebelled. We both craved the peace and stillness offered only by being remote from other habitation. We wanted starlight and owl song. We wanted a home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found a place you need to look at.\u201d Was what Mom greeted me with on my return home that fateful day. She said it calmly, but one look at her tense bright eyes gave the game away. She was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/?p=439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-good","category-people","category-thefarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brackenburn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}