{"id":2938,"date":"2020-12-31T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:27:48","slug":"bright-things-11-20-dates-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Bright Things #11: 20 Dates for 2020"},"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. <\/strong><\/em><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">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=\"wp-image-2939 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OGCK8422.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>So, this is probably the most bittersweet gift I&#8217;ve ever received. My husband presented me with this book at the end of 2019. Every page is hand painted with a watercolour illustration on the left side, and an envelope on the right side. Inside each envelope is a gift card or a description of an activity that we can do together. The idea was to get us out more in 2020 :\/<\/p>\n<p>We did go on one or two lovely dates before, you know. But I keep the book on my desk where I can see it. First of all, because it&#8217;s romantic and thoughtful. And second, because it reminds me that we&#8217;re going to have 20 fantastic dates in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>(PS I would also like to brag that in all this time I have not peeked inside any of the envelopes. A true accomplishment.)<\/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-2938","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\/2938","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=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}