{"id":1949,"date":"2025-02-16T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:36:58","slug":"saturday-memory-for-february-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/saturday-memory-for-february-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Memory for February 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SATURDAY MEMORY<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>February 15, 2025<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1950\" src=\"http:\/\/sor.bvg.mybluehost.me\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RobersonDavies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"200\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hotel in Toronto. In the seventies as I recall. I leave the hotel and fetch a taxi to take me to where I will give a lecture. As the taxi pulls up, I\u2019m aware of a man who has come up beside me. I recognize him at once and he recognizes me as well as we have met before when I have talked in Toronto. It is Robertson Davies, premier Canadian author and an aficionado of things Jungian. In the cab we got to talking about various tings and at one point he said, \u201cRuss, do you believe in reincarnation.\u201d The question was totally out of the blue and unrelated to what we were talking about. I told him that I did not believe in reincarnation. He said that he did not either. Everyone he met who believed such stuff he said, \u201chad a much better life previously than the one then have now. No one has ever told me about a wretched previous life. It\u2019s all rubbish.\u201d I don\u2019t remember what else we talked about, but this memory has stuck like glue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY MEMORY February 15, 2025 Hotel in Toronto. In the seventies as I recall. I leave the hotel and fetch a taxi to take me to where I will give a lecture. As the taxi pulls up, I\u2019m aware of a man who has come up beside me. I recognize him at once and he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}