{"id":4541,"date":"2026-02-09T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4541"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:00:53","slug":"the-summons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/the-summons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you remember those mornings long ago<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">when Martha used to come to wake you,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">shake you if you refused to rise?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then she&#8217;d stand outside your door calling:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Lazarus, come out; there&#8217;s work to be done.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes you&#8217;d shut your ears to her,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">turn in the bed, wrapping bedclothes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">more tightly round your nakedness,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">long to be left to enjoy your sleep, safe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">from a world of work and war and want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So when, having passed through sickness,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">pain and death you lay at peace in your silent<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">tomb, relieved that nothing more could reach,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">could harm you, was it pleasure or not to hear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">your friend&#8217;s imperious call, <em>Lazarus come out!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Segoe UI;\">\u00a9<\/span> Alwyn Marriage 2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember those mornings long ago when Martha used to come to wake you, shake you if you refused to rise? Then she&#8217;d stand outside your door calling: Lazarus, come out; there&#8217;s work to be done. Sometimes you&#8217;d shut your ears to her, turn in the bed, wrapping bedclothes&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/the-summons\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Summons<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4541\/revisions\/4672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}