{"id":4580,"date":"2026-02-09T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4580"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:51:03","slug":"crowned","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>acrostic<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>Oh<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">, I shall always remember two<br \/>\n<b>sacred<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> moments when your precious<br \/>\n<b>head<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> was crowned:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>once<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> when you left my womb,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>wounded<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> by day&#8217;s bright light but<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>with<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> love surrounded; then today when<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>grief<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> and cruelty seemed to win their way<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>and<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> a crown of thorns pierced you with<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>pain<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">. How can I bear to see my son so<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>weighed<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> with the sin of others, sinking<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><b>down<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"> into death&#8217;s domain?<\/span><\/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>acrostic Oh, I shall always remember two sacred moments when your precious head was crowned: once when you left my womb, wounded by day&#8217;s bright light but with love surrounded; then today when grief and cruelty seemed to win their way and a crown of thorns pierced you with pain.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/crowned\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crowned<\/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-4580","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\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4580\/revisions\/4653"}],"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=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}