{"id":4832,"date":"2022-08-20T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2023-03-24T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:43:22","slug":"tales-from-the-town-70-the-history-of-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/08\/20\/tales-from-the-town-70-the-history-of-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #71: The History Of The Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mirror001s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mirror001s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mirror001s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mirror001s-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the hall the mirror hangs for all of us to see. <\/p>\n<p>Everything it contains is borrowed from outside. We look beyond its surface. The mirror itself is never seen.<\/p>\n<p>It is as fragile as the glass of its making, as ephemeral as the glance of our eyes, as permanent as our sense of self.<\/p>\n<p>It lives on memories, lives on fear, on insecurities, on love, care, despair, kindliness, spite. The mirror reflects perfectly, yet leaves nothing looking quite the same.<\/p>\n<p>For all of us to see hangs the mirror in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on 10th May, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hall the mirror hangs for all of us to see. Everything it contains is borrowed from outside. We look beyond its surface. The mirror itself is never seen. It is as fragile as the glass of its making, as ephemeral as the glance of our eyes, as permanent as our sense of self. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1392,1149,1209],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-histories","tag-mirrors","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}