{"id":2294,"date":"2025-07-20T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:42:35","slug":"canterbury-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2025\/07\/20\/canterbury-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/259_2025_0309_134649_CanterburyTales_Small-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/259_2025_0309_134649_CanterburyTales_Small-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/259_2025_0309_134649_CanterburyTales_Small-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/259_2025_0309_134649_CanterburyTales_Small-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/259_2025_0309_134649_CanterburyTales_Small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When age is but a litany of loss,<br>your life reduced to sorting through the dross<br>of past achievements,<br>when the age is grim,<br>the time is to become a piligrim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pligrim-age, a chance to re-assess<br>priorities, to re-address the mess<br>of habits and regrets and to redress<br>the wounds inflicted on yourself and others<br>by you and mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers &#8211;<br>the loved and hated ones,<br>the ones who form you<br>and whom you shape.<br>The people who will mourn you<br>day in and out,<br>as you live and breathe<br>they mourn who you were and what is.<br>What might have been\u2026<br>one can but disappoint<br>while one is living.<br>Death creates a point<br>of no return,<br>no future and no past.<br>No possibility of loss at last.<br>Woebegon &#8211; for woe to be gone<br>we stop the clock at death and then move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obituaries are but tales that bend<br>realities into the shape of stories<br>including start, the middle and the end<br>that banishes not sadness, but the worries<br>and when the last uncertainty is gone<br>piligrimage is finished.<br>Life is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When age is but a litany of loss,your life reduced to sorting through the drossof past achievements,when the age is grim,the time is to become a piligrim. Pligrim-age, a chance to re-assesspriorities, to re-address the messof habits and regrets and to redressthe wounds inflicted on yourself and othersby you and mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers &#8211;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19,23,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}