{"id":18937,"date":"2023-06-28T21:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18937"},"modified":"2023-07-01T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:55:05","slug":"excess-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18937","title":{"rendered":"Excess of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18938\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/passionD7DL5086.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/passionD7DL5086.png 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/passionD7DL5086-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Just a few of the hundreds of passion flowers that are growing all over our wall.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>The Square of Sevens<\/em> by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a highly convoluted and (self-acknowledgedly) Dickensian tale of lost inheritance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19687\/19687-h\/19687-h.htm\">mysterious<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/marykgreer.com\/2008\/04\/03\/a-hoax-revealed-update-on-the-square-of-sevens\/\">fake<\/a>)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cartomancy#:~:text=Cartomancy%20is%20fortune%2Dtelling%20or,card%20readers%2C%20or%20simply%20readers.\">cartomancy<\/a>, decades-long lawsuits and a family at war with &#8212; and in love with &#8212; itself. The complexity and narrative unreliability increases for the first two-thirds of the book, but the hard work pays off handsomely in the final third. A difficult read in places (the included family tree is helpful), but very much worth it. Thanks Admin2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few of the hundreds of passion flowers that are growing all over our wall. Admin1 is reading The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a highly convoluted and (self-acknowledgedly) Dickensian tale of lost inheritance, mysterious (and fake)\u00a0 cartomancy, decades-long lawsuits and a family at war with &#8212; and in love with &#8212; itself. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excess of Passion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937"}],"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=18937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18948,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937\/revisions\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}