{"id":204,"date":"2007-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodvale.co.uk\/up-front-0107-2\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"up-front-0107-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/up-front-0107-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Front 01\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The distances covered by new technology never cease to amaze. A new book  to be published in January, with a storyline based on mobile phone  texting, kept me awake long into the night recently. <em>After the Death of Alice Bennett<\/em>,  a first novel by Rowland Molony from Devon, though recommended for  children from 9 upwards should appeal to many adults also. It tells the  story of a young boy named Sam whose mother had explained before she  died that she would still be alive but in the Next World. On the day of  his Mum\u2019s cremation, his sister Becky receives a text from a friend:  \u2018Lots of love, darling. Thinking of you.\u2019 Sam decides the message is  from his Mum and when he finds her mobile phone and a \u2018contact number\u2019  in her handwriting, he sends a message. \u2018Mum, please can u fone me or  txt, its urgent I want 2 spk 2 u. say where can we meet. I love u xxx  sam.\u2019 It is received by a kind but lonely lorry driver, Tony, who  innocently responds. Before he knows it, the boy is texting daily and  has decided to come and find his Mum. To me this story struck a chord as  my late brother\u2019s wife still uses his mobile and I regularly receive  texts from what appears to be him. Originally it was disconcerting but  now it is somehow comforting. I like the thought that somewhere in a  parallel world ghost like fingers could be trying to press telephone  numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distances covered by new technology never cease to amaze. A new book   to be published in January, with a storyline based on mobile phone   texting, kept me awake long into the night recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-editorials","tag-fergus-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}