{"id":3487,"date":"2016-11-14T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:44:24","slug":"geas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"Geas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father always said that we should put his ashes in two clay bowls, put them on the rocks at low tide, wait for the tide to come and go, and then to go collect the bowls and serve chips and peanuts in them.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday the 13th would have been his birthday, so that&#8217;s the date we chose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/5.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/5-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Low tide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And high tide. It got a bit rough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sea took the ashes, but the sea also took the bowls. This is all I managed to recover. Not going to serve a whole lot of peanuts in that :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father always said that we should put his ashes in two clay bowls, put them on the rocks at low tide, wait for the tide to come and go, and then to go collect the bowls and serve chips and peanuts in them. Sunday the 13th would have been his birthday, so that&#8217;s the date we chose. Low tide. And high tide. It got a bit rough. The sea took the ashes, but the sea also took the bowls. This is all I managed to recover. Not going to serve a whole lot of peanuts in that :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gansbaai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}