{"id":15565,"date":"2009-10-17T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jeanette_winterson_autumn_is_a_season_for_senses_and_the_soul\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T01:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:36:42","slug":"jeanette_winterson_autumn_is_a_season_for_senses_and_the_soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15565","title":{"rendered":"Jeanette Winterson: Autumn is a season for senses and the soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the autumn time feels short, but that there is enough of it, which is paradoxical. Time being a tricky thing to think about is best done alongside Nature, where it seems to make more sense than it does by clock or by calendar. And the memory place that autumn is uses time itself as a container for the things that we keep returning to and trying to understand.<\/p>\n<p>The reflective melancholy of autumn helps me to cope with change and loss, and to find both beauty and necessity in things passing. Ageing has a splendour to it.<\/p>\n<p>Our culture cannot accept that. I think of those lines of Donne: \u201cNor spring or summer beauty hath such grace\/ As I have seen in one autumnal face.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6878493.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the autumn time feels short, but that there is enough of it, which is paradoxical. Time being a tricky thing to think about is best done alongside Nature, where it seems to make more sense than it does by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15565\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,49,50,199,108,188,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}