{"id":15853,"date":"2020-07-31T21:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15853"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:27:38","slug":"critters-of-the-day-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15853","title":{"rendered":"Critters of the Day: Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15854\" href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=15854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15854\" title=\"swallowsC7DL3661\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swallowsC7DL3661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swallowsC7DL3661.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swallowsC7DL3661-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swallowsC7DL3661-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne swallow does not make a summer, but these two, among many others, appeared on the hottest day this year: 35.5\u00b0C, making July only the second coldest cloudiest July on our records.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is rereading <em>Dead Souls<\/em> by Ian Rankin, and having watched <em>Stranger Things<\/em> series 1 to 3, and the (rather poor) 2017 film of <em>It<\/em>, has now ODed on cute kids. As relief he&#8217;s now watching <em>Deadwind<\/em> (aka <em>Karppi<\/em>), a Finnish crime series that ticks all the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NordicNoir\">Scandi Noir boxes<\/a>: blond female detective with tragic backstory; useless\/suspicious dark-haired male sidekick; stylish domestic interiors; local politics clashing with local businesses and social services; torchlit searches of industrial areas; and, of course, they <em>never<\/em> call in backup.<br \/>\nYesterday was the 10th anniversary of our blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One swallow does not make a summer, but these two, among many others, appeared on the hottest day this year: 35.5\u00b0C, making July only the second coldest cloudiest July on our records. Admin1 is rereading Dead Souls by Ian Rankin, and having watched Stranger Things series 1 to 3, and the (rather poor) 2017 film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critters of the Day: Swallows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[19,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15853"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16144,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions\/16144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}