{"id":19017,"date":"2023-07-16T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19017"},"modified":"2023-09-30T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T21:44:03","slug":"vermilion-sands-the-manhole-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19017","title":{"rendered":"Vermilion Sands: The Manhole Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19018\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vsIMG_20230711_100101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vsIMG_20230711_100101.png 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vsIMG_20230711_100101-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Another addition to our collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=9756\">personholes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=10596\">street plaques<\/a>, this one with our initials.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>Conquest<\/em> by Nina Allen, which appeared to tick a number of Admin1&#8217;s boxes &#8212; SF, JS Bach, crime, conspiracy &#8212; but ended up being slightly unfocused thematically and with some irritating stylistic quirks (NA eschews quotation marks for speech). A brave attempt which didn&#8217;t quite come off. But many thanks, Admin2!<br \/>\nAdmin2 is reading <em>The Lock-up<\/em>* by John Banville. As in the other two books in the series, everything proceeds very sedately until the last chapter, when all hell breaks loose [correction: the penultimate chapter; the last 2 books had a coda in which someone got away with something].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another addition to our collection of personholes and street plaques, this one with our initials. Admin1 is reading Conquest by Nina Allen, which appeared to tick a number of Admin1&#8217;s boxes &#8212; SF, JS Bach, crime, conspiracy &#8212; but ended up being slightly unfocused thematically and with some irritating stylistic quirks (NA eschews quotation marks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vermilion Sands: The Manhole Cover&#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":[1],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017"}],"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=19017"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}