{"id":9762,"date":"2021-10-14T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:16:16","slug":"a-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/a-ghost-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A ghost story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"9756\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/shutforthenight\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"795,1249\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;LeEtta&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1631788543&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shutforthenight\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-255x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-382x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-382x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-382x600.jpg 382w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-255x400.jpg 255w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-768x1207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight-92x144.jpg 92w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutforthenight.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><figcaption>Original artwork created based on a sentence from the beginning section of <em>A School Story<\/em> by M.R. James:  &#8216;Also there was the lady who, on locking her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a thin voice among the bed-curtains say, &#8216;Now we&#8217;re shut in for the night.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Good friends of mine recently commissioned me to visually render a sentence.  I loved the challenge and am quite happy with the result!   The sentence came from the beginning section of <em>A School Story<\/em> by M.R. James:  &#8216;Also there was the lady who, on locking her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a thin voice among the bed-curtains say, &#8216;Now we&#8217;re shut in for the night.&#8217;   If you are hankering for a ghost story, then you can listen to <em>A School Story<\/em> read by Michael Hordern:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"850\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sZijV404Vis?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good friends of mine recently commissioned me to visually render a sentence. I loved the challenge and am quite happy with the result! The sentence came from the beginning section of A School Story by M.R. James: &#8216;Also there was the lady who, on locking her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a thin&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/a-ghost-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A ghost story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60,49],"class_list":["post-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art","tag-drawing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3641,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/excerpt-of-penelope-sea-and-ocean-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":9762,"position":0},"title":"Excerpt of Penelope Sea and Ocean End","author":"leems","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked about it, and I have constantly deflected questions and nagging from a friend who thinks it is good and I 'need to get off my butt and edit it already.'\u00a0 Penelope Sea and Ocean End is the first book I ever wrote.\u00a0 It's not even 20,000 words -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/images\/PenelopeSeacolor50.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6487,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/tom-dooley\/","url_meta":{"origin":9762,"position":1},"title":"Tom Dooley","author":"leems","date":"September 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Short fiction based on the story of Tom Dooley: Thomas C. 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