{"id":4952,"date":"2022-11-26T03:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T03:04:25","slug":"tales-from-the-town-85-the-history-of-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/11\/26\/tales-from-the-town-85-the-history-of-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #85: The History Of The Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/historyofthewell001s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/historyofthewell001s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/historyofthewell001s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/historyofthewell001s-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The well wasn&#8217;t always haunted. But it had always been a well.<\/p>\n<p>It is an echo of that which happens above, shaped by all the things it cannot see. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as young as the rain, younger than clouds, newer than children, more recent than sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Its memories are memories of the memories it once remembered itself. It longs. It yearns. It needs. It wants. But for what it does not know.<\/p>\n<p>The well is a mouth that feeds on old bones. The well is a prison that is impossible to escape. The well is a hole even blacker than our hearts, even deeper than our despair.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on 29th March, 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>The well wasn&#8217;t always haunted. But it had always been a well. It is an echo of that which happens above, shaped by all the things it cannot see. It&#8217;s as young as the rain, younger than clouds, newer than children, more recent than sleep. Its memories are memories of the memories it once remembered [&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":[1392,1209,1418],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-histories","tag-tales-from-the-town","tag-the-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","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=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}