{"id":1490,"date":"2023-08-21T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:52:30","slug":"a-bag-of-marbles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"A Bag of Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a book I got today at a charity shop. It&#8217;s about two boys during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing interesting stuff everywhere now about time, memories and how they change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words in the preface struck a chord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/08\/a-bag-of-marbles001-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1514\" width=\"354\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preface<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This book isn&#8217;t the work of a historian. I&#8217;ve drawn on my childhood recollections to tell my adventures during the Occupation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thirty years have gone by since I was that ten-year -old boy. <strong>Not only do we forget things, but our memory often plays tricks on us, altering the things that we remember.<\/strong> But the important part, the true part, is still there &#8211; the mixture of tenderness, comedy and anguish.<strong> To avoid hurt feelings, the names of many people who appear in this story have been changed.<\/strong> It is the story of two children in a world of cruelty, absurdity, and, at times, helpfulness of the most unexpected kind.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>my bold print.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Joffo, J. (1974) A Bag of Marbles. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book I got today at a charity shop. It&#8217;s about two boys during World War II. I&#8217;m seeing interesting stuff everywhere now about time, memories and how they change. The words in the preface struck a chord. Preface &#8220;This book isn&#8217;t the work of a historian. I&#8217;ve drawn on my childhood recollections&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1490\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bag of Marbles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-2-aug","category-ma-2-contextual-persp","category-home","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}