{"id":370,"date":"2010-07-23T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promiscuousassemblage.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-07-23T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:17:12","slug":"smoldering-vs-sparkling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/smoldering-vs-sparkling\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoldering vs. Sparkling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A quote from Robert Sackville-West (from British House &amp; Gardens, June 2010) regarding the style of Knole,\u00c2\u00a0 his family&#8217;s ancestral home:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;During two years of total immersion in the place, I have come to realise that whatever you do, you have to respect-and not fight against-that feel Knole has of fading magnificence, that magic which smolders rather than\u00c2\u00a0 sparkles.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, the majority of us will not be able to learn that lesson from inhabiting our own homes, where , perhaps, there is more fading than magnificence, but it is rather a nice thing to ponder, and maybe even experience, by letting things be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Interesting fact!!!!\u00c2\u00a0 Knole is one of England&#8217;s &#8220;calendar&#8221; homes, with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, and 7 courtyards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from Robert Sackville-West (from British House &amp; Gardens, June 2010) regarding the style of Knole,\u00c2\u00a0 his family&#8217;s ancestral home: &#8220;During two years of total immersion in the place, I have come to realise that whatever you do, you have to respect-and not fight against-that feel Knole has of fading magnificence, that magic which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promiscuous-assemblage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}