{"id":11580,"date":"2014-12-07T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2014-12-07T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T01:36:37","slug":"the-power-of-coincidence-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=11580","title":{"rendered":"The power of coincidence or something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to explain what has happened over and over again. My NaNoWriMo story is set mostly in Wales and time and time I rummage on the web for some bit of a hint on where something might happen, or even just a stray piece of info and the exact place appears, conveniently located and properly old and with marvelous history or whatever is needed. Sometimes it starts with a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight it started with iTunes offering me a tune played by John Redbourn and his band of merries, a tune called <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1kp8-m3W_2o\" title=\"Planxty Llanthony\" target=\"_blank\">Planxty Llanthony<\/a>. I somewhat idly put Llanthony into search and damn if there isn&#8217;t a Llanthony Priory in reach of the Black Mountains within Brecon Beacons&#8230; that&#8217;s just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llanthony_Priory\" title=\"Llanthony Priory\" target=\"_blank\">Llanthony Priory<\/a> is a partly ruined [1] former Augustinian priory [2] in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep sided once glaciated valley within the Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well then.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look up a planxty<br \/>\nLlanthony Priory<br \/>\nmagically appears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/llanthony.priory.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/llanthony.priory.jpg\" title=\"Llanthony Priory\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\">><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look up a planxty \u2022<br \/>\nLlanthony Priory \u2022<br \/>\nmagically appears. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=11580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[64,30,33,51],"tags":[540,281,530,192,279],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haikupedia","category-life-on-the-web","category-nanowrimo","category-the-creative-process","tag-haikupedia","tag-lifeontheweb","tag-nanowrimo","tag-process","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-30M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}