{"id":570,"date":"2011-08-12T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2011\/summer-in-the-city\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:24:00","slug":"summer-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/summer-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-d_ZjBexd_wA\/TkUXCv42FRI\/AAAAAAAACEM\/8_MlVoyCUL8\/s1600\/IMG_0178.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-d_ZjBexd_wA\/TkUXCv42FRI\/AAAAAAAACEM\/8_MlVoyCUL8\/s640\/IMG_0178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week, being a tourist in our beloved London.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fLCuxKl6v8Q\/TkUXJYHCH7I\/AAAAAAAACEQ\/8VNoRuW7z2Q\/s1600\/IMG_0179.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fLCuxKl6v8Q\/TkUXJYHCH7I\/AAAAAAAACEQ\/8VNoRuW7z2Q\/s640\/IMG_0179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Houses of Parliament from the Abbey Gardens (free to enter, very quiet and peaceful place)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Despite recent events just up the road from us, scary and unnerving, we keep<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;our eyes locked on the overwhelmingly bigger amount of good (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-14456857\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/872079-london-riots-victim-asyraf-haziq-sparks-huge-online-campaign\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changemakers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=386\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>..our minds working through the deeper questions, avoiding knee-jerk reactions, helped by voices such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/camila-batmanghelidjh-caring-costs-ndash-but-so-do-riots-2333991.html\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/peteroborne\/100100708\/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/law-and-order\/8630533\/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/right-london-riots.html\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia.co.uk\/node\/15218\">this <\/a>(and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-rbkzVkXuMY&amp;feature=player_embedded\">this<\/a> which wells me up everytime I watch it)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;our hearts believing in the ultimate goodness of humans and praying for pain, darkness and badness to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbelt.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/praying-after-the-riots\/\">transformed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8VlKDOjAj6U\/TkUYASi1d5I\/AAAAAAAACEU\/sKsdDi5UNpY\/s1600\/IMG_0165.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8VlKDOjAj6U\/TkUYASi1d5I\/AAAAAAAACEU\/sKsdDi5UNpY\/s640\/IMG_0165.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rainbow over London (and my washing!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Holidays await us in the next 3 weeks, coming and going between London and Norfolk and the ever-inspiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbelt.org.uk\/\">Greenbelt Arts Festival<\/a>. Looking forward to spending a lot of time amongst trees, beaches and the creativity of festival fun to calm and nourish us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7L9gK05tLUQ\/TkUYlitGPTI\/AAAAAAAACEc\/Ck_4p9iqCD0\/s1600\/DSC_0257.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7L9gK05tLUQ\/TkUYlitGPTI\/AAAAAAAACEc\/Ck_4p9iqCD0\/s400\/DSC_0257.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-96NdUVyDi8w\/TkUY6K5c-jI\/AAAAAAAACEg\/NDUGNryyiSg\/s1600\/DSC_0264.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-96NdUVyDi8w\/TkUY6K5c-jI\/AAAAAAAACEg\/NDUGNryyiSg\/s400\/DSC_0264.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nCgdHGnM3ro\/TkUZSzDenKI\/AAAAAAAACEk\/9q1pFE9-GHY\/s1600\/DSC_0268.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nCgdHGnM3ro\/TkUZSzDenKI\/AAAAAAAACEk\/9q1pFE9-GHY\/s640\/DSC_0268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0I&#8217;ll be seeing you very soon&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ruKG0ctAYRw\/TkUYXefQovI\/AAAAAAAACEY\/54OM-iOPkwE\/s1600\/DSC_0250.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ruKG0ctAYRw\/TkUYXefQovI\/AAAAAAAACEY\/54OM-iOPkwE\/s640\/DSC_0250.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, being a tourist in our beloved London. Houses of Parliament from the Abbey Gardens (free to enter, very quiet and peaceful place) Despite recent events just up the road from us, scary and unnerving, we keep &#8230;our eyes locked on the overwhelmingly bigger amount of good (see here and here and here) ..our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,35,28,13,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-life","category-deep-thoughts-and-reflections","category-nature-the-planet","category-relaxation","category-soulful-life","category-soulful-resources-links","category-tranforming-broken-ness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}