{"id":355,"date":"2006-12-12T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/childhood-memories\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:40:15","slug":"childhood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/childhood-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was six I lived in Portsmouth on a naval housing estate on Matapan Road in Hilsea. While I was there I was attacked by someone intent on ending my life&#8230; that happened almost 30 years ago. I&#8217;ve told a few people and it comes up in conversation every now and then. Over the last 30 years I have not thought about it that much in the scheme of things. I started at IBM in July where the place is practically in view from where I sit and barely a day goes by without me thinking about it&#8230; strange isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I managed to write a very story story about it called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/writing\/story.php?file=black_velcro_show\">Black Velcro Shoe<\/a>&#8221; some years ago, which was a odd experience to say the least. I had no problem writing it but I couldn&#8217;t read it out in my creative writing class.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/writing\/story.php?file=black_velcro_show\">Black Velcro Shoe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&#038;cp=50.836449~-1.075995&#038;style=h&#038;lvl=15&#038;tilt=-90&#038;dir=0&#038;alt=-1000&#038;scene=4330960&#038;sp=Point.sg65jzgx8mp0_My%20desk%20at%20IBM___~Point.sg4g3hgx95rh_My%20Old%20House___~Point.sg54gtgx94g7_Where%20I%20was%20attacked___~Polyline.sg54rsgx94h2_sg55xggx9524_sg58prgx9563_sg5bf8gx95fp_sg598zgx9by7_sg56qhgx9d9j_sg574qgx9jq5_sg570pgx9m83_sg54m5gx9m4f_sg4cwkgx9b59_sg4g2zgx95t0_sg4g6bgx95ry_sg4g58gx95rq_My%20Final%20Route%20Home____%230000FF_%23008000_2pt_Single_Solid_sg56y3gx9ghc\">A map of events using Local Live<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Portsmouth\" title=\"Portsmouth\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Portsmouth\" rel=\"tag\" >Portsmouth<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Childhood Memories\" title=\"Childhood Memories\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Childhood%20Memories\" rel=\"tag\" >Childhood Memories<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Memories\" title=\"Memories\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Memories\" rel=\"tag\" >Memories<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Personal\" title=\"Personal\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Personal\" rel=\"tag\" >Personal<\/a><br\/>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/15\/the-moonstar-hovered-bright-and-clear-in-a-deep-dark-sky\/\" title=\"The Moonstar hovered bright and clear in a deep dark sky\">The Moonstar hovered bright and clear in a deep dark sky<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/23\/the-lemon-tree\/\" title=\"The Lemon Tree\">The Lemon Tree<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/02\/20-years-of-giving-it-a-go\/\" title=\"20 Years of giving it a go&#8230;\">20 Years of giving it a go&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/14\/just-a-stone\/\" title=\"just a stone\">just a stone<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/12\/do-you-remember-chalk-hearts-melting-on-a-playground-wall\/\" title=\"Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?\">Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was six I lived in Portsmouth on a naval housing estate on Matapan Road in Hilsea. While I was there I was attacked by someone intent on ending my life&#8230; that happened almost 30 years ago. I&#8217;ve told a few people and it comes up in conversation every now and then. Over the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/childhood-memories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Childhood Memories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44,25],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-personal","tag-memories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}