{"id":50592,"date":"2017-05-14T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=50592"},"modified":"2017-05-14T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T11:16:29","slug":"mothering-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/mothering-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"mothering sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!---is a holiday celebrated by Catholic and Protestant Christians in some parts of Europe.  It falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Day.---> <em>Once observed as a day on which people would visit their mother church, it has also become an occasion for honouring the mothers of children and giving them presents. It is increasingly being called Mother&#8217;s Day, although that has always been a secular event quite different from the original Mothering Sunday.<\/em> <!--- In the UK and Ireland, Mothering Sunday is celebrated in the same way as Mother's Day is celebrated elsewhere. ---><\/p>\n<p>Graham Swift spreekt bedachtzaam, verandert het woord &#8216;desperation&#8217; in &#8216;confusion&#8217;, alsof hij minder ver wil gaan dan Thoreau, enige controle wil behouden, of potentie wil blijven zien. Verwarring kan leiden tot wanhoop, maar ook tot iets anders: &#8216;I think we all live in quiet confusion&#8217;. <!--- Als hij al iets wil dan is het dat je met hem in zijn boot durft. Trust. ---> <!--- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Thoreau, Walden. ---><\/p>\n<p>Swift schrijft over een dag, \u00e9\u00e9n dag. Waarom \u00e9\u00e9n dag? De urgentie van een dag is de urgentie van je leven. That&#8217;s a day, that&#8217;s your life, now what are you gonna do with it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>E\u00e9n dag. It&#8217;s about becoming. Lente. In een roman kun je die dag opnieuw en opnieuw beleven. De dag die alles in gang zet. Alsof schrijven beantwoordt aan Mother Nature: het is altijd nu, het wordt. Alsof schrijven er niet aan wil, aan die wet, dwelling on the past.<\/p>\n<p><small>\u2013 Mothering sunday, Graham Swift<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Call-to-action: op de knop gedrukt (Swift)<\/p>\n<p><!--- op ilfu.nl ---><br \/>\n<!--- Elke dag is natuurlijk zo'n dag. Myss heeft het hier ook steeds over. De dag komt niet terug, wat ga je ermee doen? ---><br \/>\n<!--- De dag, 30 maart 1924, waarop ze besluit \u2013 besluit je zoiets? \u2013 schrijver te worden.  De dag waarop een schrijver geboren wordt. De dag waarop een schrijver wordt. ---><br \/>\n<!--- Een roman kan immediacy verschaffen. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once observed as a day on which people would visit their mother church, it has also become an occasion for honouring the mothers of children and giving them presents. It is increasingly being called Mother&#8217;s Day, although that has always been a secular event quite different from the original Mothering Sunday. Graham Swift spreekt bedachtzaam,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/mothering-sunday\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,5],"tags":[2092,2093,2091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50592"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50631,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50592\/revisions\/50631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}