{"id":21884,"date":"2026-02-21T05:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/spring-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:25:59","slug":"spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read: Spring by Ali Smith \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is, she says. You\u2019re right. We are a fairy story. We\u2019re a folk tale. I don\u2019t mean to sound in the least fey. Those stories are deeply serious, all about transformation. How we\u2019re changed by things. Or made to change. Or have to learn to change. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on, change. We\u2019re serious, too. She pours him another whisky&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rilke &amp; Katherine Mansfield appear along the artist Tacita Dean.  The declines of television &amp; our treatment of refugees. A cast of characters include a magical 12 year old refugee, an old TV director with an imaginary daughter &amp; a worker at an immigration centre.  Rabbit holes galore. Finally a we bit of springlike hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Spring by Ali Smith \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; It is, she says. You\u2019re right. We are a fairy story. We\u2019re a folk tale. I don\u2019t mean to sound in the least fey. Those stories are deeply serious, all about transformation. How we\u2019re changed by things. Or made to change. Or have to learn to change. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898],"tags":[1567,1598],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-21884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"tag-ali-smith","8":"tag-1598","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5GY","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21884"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}