{"id":356,"date":"2007-05-21T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/21\/mourning-the-cutty-sark\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:54:46","slug":"mourning-the-cutty-sark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/21\/mourning-the-cutty-sark\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning the Cutty Sark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cutty_Sark\">Cutty Sark<\/a> is no more.   The New York Times is treating <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/21\/stages-of-cutty-sark-grief\/\">the emotional impact<\/a> of the loss of the clipper ship as something of a curiosity, which I suppose is understandable for a paper with a readership that likely has little to no connection with the Cutty Sark.  But in Britain &#8211; and for many of us around the world &#8211; the Cutty Sark was something important, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/6676877.stm\">tied up in history and shared memories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My own connection with the Cutty Sark comes from a simple photograph.  Taken by my father in the mid-60s, it was framed and hung in every house we ever lived in as a family.  The towns and furniture changed a dozen or more times, but the picture was a constant.  Seeing the Cutty Sark in person on my first trip to Greenwich (20-something years ago, now that I think about it) was as exciting as anything else I&#8217;d ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/507888019_150aa54f63.jpg\" title=\"Cutty Sark\" alt=\"Cutty Sark\" height=\"500\" width=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/codedragon\/\">Graham Binns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the Cutty Sark is no more. The New York Times is treating the emotional impact of the loss of the clipper ship as something of a curiosity, which I suppose is understandable for a paper with a readership that likely has little to no connection with the Cutty Sark. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}