{"id":20,"date":"2019-09-27T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:56:40","slug":"locked-out-of-the-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/locked-out-of-the-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked out of the graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was late leaving work the other day, and the graveyard gates were locked when I arrived.
We don\u2019t live<\/strong> in a graveyard, of course.  That\u2019s ridiculous. I walk through one on my route to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bunhill Fields Burial Ground [1] – last resting place of, well, a bunch of people, including Defoe and Blake, and a bunch of Cromwells – but not that<\/strong> Cromwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stone path through is worn and uneven – collecting deep and barely avoidable puddles in the rain – and the iron fence edging the path has been built around tree roots and trunks.
The headstones visible from the path are hundreds of years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People sit on the benches taking their coffee or tea in the morning, squirrels scamper amongst the headstones and up the tree trunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the morning commuters rushing to work dodge around people out for a stroll. On nice evenings crowds gather at the pub at the far end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occasionally the caretaker is seen about, doing whatever one does to care for a field of grave markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the wet, dodging puddles underfoot and fat drops from the trees above, it\u2019s become the favorite bit of my commute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, they lock the graveyard gates at dusk – so as the days get shorter, I\u2019ll have to find a different route home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll let you know what I find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] https:\/\/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/things-to-do\/green-spaces\/city-gardens\/Documents\/bunhill-leaflet-map.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was late leaving work the other day, and the graveyard gates were locked when I arrived.We don\u2019t live in a graveyard, of course.  That\u2019s ridiculous. I walk through one on my route to work. The Bunhill Fields Burial Ground [1] – last resting place of, well, a bunch of people, including Defoe and Blake, and a … Continue reading “Locked out of the graveyard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-calling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}