{"id":90398,"date":"2014-10-02T08:49:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90398"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:51:47","slug":"a-ghostly-apparition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90398","title":{"rendered":"Miss Havisham? Is That You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling restless, I went to the beach yesterday. I took a long walk up and down the empty stretches of sand. There were intermittent rain showers, and the waves were heaving and dark green. There were very few people there. A couple of lonely fishermen standing at the edge of the water, a couple of walkers like myself. Back up on the boardwalk, I looked down at the wide shoreline, and saw \u2026. <\/p>\n<p>a woman in a wedding dress. Standing all by herself down by the water. <\/p>\n<p>I am sure there was some rational explanation. But I am not interested in rational explanations. <\/p>\n<p>I am interested in the story possibilities of such a moment as this.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z.jpg\" alt=\"15391777906_829755147a_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15391777906_829755147a_z-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling restless, I went to the beach yesterday. I took a long walk up and down the empty stretches of sand. There were intermittent rain showers, and the waves were heaving and dark green. There were very few people there. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90412,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90398\/revisions\/90412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}