{"id":1201,"date":"2020-04-13T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elizabethgoudge.org\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:24:23","slug":"in-our-time-of-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethgoudge.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/in-our-time-of-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"In Our Time of Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethgoudge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Rosemary-Tree-690x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In these days of self-isolation we work to reach out to one another in different ways. Reaching for consolation and advise from Elizabeth is probably one that we have all experienced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She herself lived through the great flu pandemic of 1918, which killed more people than the horrendous world war they had just gone through, and was a contributing factor to Elizabeth&#8217;s spinsterhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what would Elizabeth recommend that I read, I reached out and pulled The Rosemary Tree from the shelf. Not one of my favourite of her books, Daphne annoys me. I went to put it back and then remembered the themes that this work explores; confinement, isolation, imprisonment, illness, and the ultimate journey of death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it has something to say to me after all. Let Elizabeth keep you company and offer consolation for an evening or two, I don&#8217;t think the conversation will disappoint.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of self-isolation we work to reach out to one another in different ways. 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