{"id":1624,"date":"2020-04-13T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:37:43","slug":"reflections-in-a-time-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Reflections in a time of Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our time of forced isolation due to the COVID-19 virus we might find ourselves reflecting on past times and events and even finding the time to write them down.  We welcome your contributions on topics of local or garden history or of general historical interest.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Click here to make your own contribution to our website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=676\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to make a contribution to our website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is one memory that surfaced and although it&#8217;s not about the Mt Lofty Districts, we offer it for your own reflection.  With Cruise Ships seemingly constantly in the news at the present time, one of our members recalls a journey from Australia to England in the 1950s, when the default travel mode was, of course, an ocean voyage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Click here to read the article (opens in a new tab)\">Click here to read the article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our time of forced isolation due to the COVID-19 virus we might find ourselves reflecting on past times and events and even finding the time to write them down. We welcome your contributions on topics of local or garden history or of general historical interest. Click here to make a contribution to our website &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=1624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflections in a time of Isolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNLq6-qc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1739,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=1739","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":0},"title":"Isolation brings out the Writers","date":"April 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of our members are finding that isolation is inspiring them to take up past skills, explore new ones, work through the backlog of tasks at home or in this case, write an article for our Gateways or other web pages. 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