{"id":3881,"date":"2023-12-02T19:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T18:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:51:43","slug":"a-few-memories-of-tahiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/02\/a-few-memories-of-tahiti\/","title":{"rendered":"A few memories of Tahiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From November 2019 to January 2020, P and I holidayed in Tahiti. When COVID locked down England a couple of months later, the experience of our trip was quickly effaced by the anxieties of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, viewing the pictures that I&#8217;d taken in Tahiti reminded me of COVID instead of the joyful visits to these beautiful places. But now we&#8217;ve reached a point of normalcy where I can appreciate them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you like the photos too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-attachment-id=\"3886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/02\/a-few-memories-of-tahiti\/2019-12-29-046\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2019-12-29-046.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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When COVID locked down England a couple of months later, the experience of our trip was quickly effaced by the anxieties of the day. Since then, viewing the pictures that I&#8217;d taken in Tahiti reminded me of COVID instead of the joyful visits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-10B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4818,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/all-about-p\/","url_meta":{"origin":3881,"position":0},"title":"All about P","author":"Eddy Young","date":"21 June 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, I found an envelope containing film negatives with candid pictures of P, taken between 2008 and 2010 when I was beginning film photography. 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