{"id":1712,"date":"2023-10-08T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2023-10-08T22:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:52:26","slug":"is-this-an-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Is this an artifact?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to a pub in Belfast on Thursday night, after visiting the Artcetera gallery, for a wee pint and to waach some rugby on TV. There was a really noisy group at the next table. I recognised their accents &#8211; Canadian! I Whatsapped my Canadian ex-girlfriend, Vicki, from the 70s, as we are still friends. She sent me this pic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course (!) I remember this evening. St. Valentine&#8217;s Day, 1978. I had to defend my MSc thesis on 3rd March, and there was a practice defence on 15th February. I was working late and she called round with food and some fun presents.<\/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\/10\/386893142_1085105222657720_2921326029273928898_n-516x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1713\" width=\"387\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next day I had a look in my wardrobe, and &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF4383-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1714\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this an artifact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a pub in Belfast on Thursday night, after visiting the Artcetera gallery, for a wee pint and to waach some rugby on TV. There was a really noisy group at the next table. I recognised their accents &#8211; Canadian! I Whatsapped my Canadian ex-girlfriend, Vicki, from the 70s, as we are still&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1712\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this an artifact?<\/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":[23,52,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-2-contextual-persp","category-1-2-oct","category-home","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}