{"id":42922,"date":"2025-03-14T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42922"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:41:41","slug":"gorgeous-words-from-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/gorgeous-words-from-charles-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous Words From Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>~ from <em>Great Expectations\u00a0<\/em>(1861)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42923\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Great-Expectations-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Great-Expectations-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Great-Expectations-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Great-Expectations.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I do love me some gorgeous words, and it&#8217;s hard to beat this snippet from the great Mr Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>The other aspect that always strikes me is that Dickens will have been writing of the Northern Hemisphere&#8217;s early spring, while March is early autumn here in the Southern Hemisphere. And yet the March days here may be exactly that same mix of brightness and cloud, warmth and cold. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35349\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Autumn-fires...-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Autumn-fires...-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Autumn-fires...-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Autumn-fires...-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Autumn-fires...-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.&#8221; ~ from Great Expectations\u00a0(1861) &#8212; I do love me some gorgeous words, and it&#8217;s hard to beat this snippet from the great Mr Dickens. The other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42925,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42922\/revisions\/42925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}