{"id":1449,"date":"2008-09-26T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2008-09-29T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T12:39:58","slug":"david-monck-1943-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/david-monck-1943-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"David Michael Monck (1943-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-1458\" title=\"David Monck (1943-2008)\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/david-monck-3.jpg\" alt=\"David Monck\" width=\"470\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/david-monck-3.jpg 470w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/david-monck-3-100x77.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/david-monck-3-200x154.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;John Brown is dead,&#8217; said an aged friend and visitor in answer to my inquiry for the strong labourer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Is he really dead?&#8217; I asked, for it seemed impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is. He came home from his work in the evening as usual, and seemed to catch his foot in the threshold and fell forward on the floor. When they picked him up he was dead.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/dirs\/etext04\/fhedg10h.htm#28\"><em><strong>My Old Village<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.bath.ac.uk\/lissmc\/rjeffs.htm\">Richard Jefferies<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">His Immortality<\/span><\/strong><\/em> by Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n<p>I saw a dead man&#8217;s finer part<br \/>\nShining within each faithful heart<br \/>\nOf those bereft. Then said I: &#8220;This must be<br \/>\nHis immortality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked there as the seasons wore,<br \/>\nAnd still his soul continuously upbore<br \/>\nIts life in theirs. But less its shine excelled<br \/>\nThan when I first beheld&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly I ask \u2013 now old and chill \u2013<br \/>\nIf aught of him remain unperished still;<br \/>\nAnd find, in me alone, a feeble spark,<br \/>\nDying amid the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}