{"id":12237,"date":"2023-12-05T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:14:53","slug":"fen-landscape-a-flat-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/fen-landscape-a-flat-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Fen Landscape \u2013 &#8216;A Flat Place&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Landbeach-Cambs-November-2023.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Landbeach-Cambs-November-2023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Landbeach-Cambs-November-2023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Landbeach-Cambs-November-2023-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Landbeach-Cambs-November-2023.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Landbeach, Cambs, November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018When we stand in a flat landscape, we find ourselves in a kind of contradiction.\u00a0 Everything there is to see lies freely open to us.\u00a0 And yet there seems to be nothing to see.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know how to organise this space in our minds.\u2019 (p13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018A flat landscape stretches out blandly.&nbsp; It says nothing and it hides nothing. It takes everything that\u2019s happened on it and to it and smooths it all out till there\u2019s nothing to see.&nbsp; Nothing to love, either, none of the rises and falls which signify feeling and life.\u2019&nbsp; (p.201)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018The fens are marked, and made distinctive, by their damage.\u00a0 Drainage brought flat, arable, farmland.\u00a0 It also stripped locals of a way of life, and massacred biodiversity.\u00a0 The landscape demands a strange double vision: rich with fertility and a symbol of death; smooth and perfect, and yet a place where something went very wrong.\u2019\u00a0 (p.209)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A Flat Place<\/em>, Noreen Masud 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018When we stand in a flat landscape, we find ourselves in a kind of contradiction.\u00a0 Everything there is to see lies freely open to us.\u00a0 And yet there seems to be nothing to see.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know how to organise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/fen-landscape-a-flat-place\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[755,910],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fen-landscape","tag-fen-lnadscape","tag-noreen-masud"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-3bn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12239,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}