{"id":2082,"date":"2025-08-02T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2025-08-02T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:33:37","slug":"saturday-memory-for-august-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/saturday-memory-for-august-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Memory for August 2, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday Memory<\/span><br \/>\nAugust 2, 2025<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>During my 1980 trip to Scotland, I visited Simon McDonald-Lockhart at Lee Castle, the ancestral home of the Lockharts. He made it possible for me to spend some time alone with the Lee Penny. This object (a ruby-like stone mounted on a coin) was gifted to Simon Locard during the crusade in 1330 from a Moorish emir. It was believed to have healing properties, and indeed, it has been used as such, even being requisitioned by the government. In handling the stone, I could feel some strange qualities but could not describe them. I did see images that presented themselves, but they were too fast to track. The Lee Penny was the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott\u2019s novel,<em> The Talisman<\/em>. Scott was a frequent visitor to Lee Castle, where he found a Lockhart daughter to marry. The memory of holding the Lee Penny is still as sharp as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Memory August 2, 2025 During my 1980 trip to Scotland, I visited Simon McDonald-Lockhart at Lee Castle, the ancestral home of the Lockharts. He made it possible for me to spend some time alone with the Lee Penny. This object (a ruby-like stone mounted on a coin) was gifted to Simon Locard during the [&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-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","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=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}