{"id":220,"date":"2015-01-12T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-01-19T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:50:19","slug":"simon-courts-memories-of-the-quaker-meeting-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/2015\/01\/12\/simon-courts-memories-of-the-quaker-meeting-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Court&#8217;s memories of the Quaker Meeting House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon was inspired by a walk we undertook earlier in the year which took us under Swann House roundabout in the centre of Newcastle. He was recalling how, as a child, \u00a0he used to go to a Quaker Meeting House in that area. This prompted him to share these memories in a small stairwell in the department. The atmosphere in this space was chilly and damp, there was an air of abandonment in the space which added to the emotional impact of the poetry Simon read in the space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-221\" alt=\"IMG_0300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0300-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0300-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0300-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0300-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon served us soup in the space, to add another layer to our shared experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" alt=\"IMG_0277\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0277-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0277-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0277-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0277-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An intense listening experience<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-223\" alt=\"IMG_0313\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0313-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0313-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0313-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0313-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Simon Court reading to the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon was inspired by a walk we undertook earlier in the year which took us under Swann House roundabout in the centre of Newcastle. He was recalling how, as a child, \u00a0he used to go to a Quaker Meeting House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/2015\/01\/12\/simon-courts-memories-of-the-quaker-meeting-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridgetkennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}