{"id":761,"date":"2018-05-01T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=761"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:08:27","slug":"memoir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=761","title":{"rendered":"MEMOIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a village called Belbroughton, on the edge of the Black Country. These memoir pieces are from my childhood.&nbsp; A collection of these pieces was long-listed for the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award, 2018. Another short piece was originally published by the Black Country Arts Foundry, also in 2018.&nbsp; (The link below will take you to the site)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcountryartsfoundry.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/18\/new-black-country-fiction-bronwengriff\/\">The Back of the Scythe Works &#8211;&nbsp;Belbroughton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBMay14-040.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[761]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBMay14-040-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBMay14-040-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBMay14-040-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo is of an old oak not too far from where I grew up. I once came eye to eye with an owl in that tree.&nbsp; I always used to visit the tree when returning to the village but sadly, now that both my parents are gone, I rarely visit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a village called Belbroughton, on the edge of the Black Country. These memoir pieces are from my childhood.&nbsp; A collection of these pieces was long-listed for the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award, 2018. Another short piece was originally published by the Black Country Arts Foundry, also in 2018.&nbsp; (The link below will take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MEMOIR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}