{"id":2871,"date":"2020-11-26T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:33:21","slug":"bright-things-6-comfort-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"Bright Things #6: Comfort Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">One of the themes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Memory-Collectors\/Kim-Neville\/9781982157586\">The Memory Collectors<\/a> is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special to me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XBZR4859-1140x1425.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My husband gave me this comfort bird for Christmas last year. I wish I knew the artist who made it. He came across it at an open air market in Vancouver and knew immediately that I would love it. Comfort birds fit nicely in the palm of your hand. They are meant to be held and touched, to provide tactile soothing much like a worry stone. This one lives in my coat pocket, where it has gotten a lot of use over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>My husband didn&#8217;t predict 2020\u2014he just knows that I am both a bird lover and a worrier. Nevertheless, his timing was spot on. Thanks, little bird, for keeping me company when I&#8217;m out in the world, and thank you, husband, for knowing me so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the themes of&nbsp;The Memory Collectors is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-things","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}