{"id":3190,"date":"2013-10-11T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:50:57","slug":"marks-of-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/marks-of-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks of Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our beloved daughter Julia sent me the image below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3191\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Julias-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3191\" alt=\"Lotus blossoms\" src=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Julias-Image.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lotus blossoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The wording down the image&#8217;s side is a quote from my work, Malmaxa.<\/p>\n<p>While writing the first book in the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/samples\/malmaxa\/beltamars-war\/\">Beltamar\u2019s War<\/a>, I asked each of my children how they envisaged their marks. My interpretation of Julia\u2019s description appears below, personally rendered into art that strives to emulate the words used to capture a mental image of her dream.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3192\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Julias-Mark-in-Malmaxa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3192\" alt=\"My interpretation of my daughter's symbol.\" src=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Julias-Mark-in-Malmaxa.jpg\" width=\"608\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My interpretation of my daughter&#8217;s symbol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some say, \u201c<em>A picture is worth a thousand words<\/em>.\u201d I don\u2019t hold this to be true, there are many things a picture cannot capture, yet words can. Thoughts take this to another level entirely \u2013 they are elusive and hard to depict in either image, or word, yet artists manage.<\/p>\n<p>Were you in Malmaxa, how would your marks of family appear?<\/p>\n<p>Would you wear their symbols etched upon on your flesh, or in your heart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our beloved daughter Julia sent me the image below. The wording down the image&#8217;s side is a quote from my work, Malmaxa. While writing the first book in the series, Beltamar\u2019s War, I asked each of my children how they envisaged their marks. My interpretation of Julia\u2019s description appears below, personally rendered into art that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,244,409],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beltamars-war","tag-malmaxa","tag-symbols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}