{"id":19180,"date":"2023-09-07T19:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19180"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:55:25","slug":"halo-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19180","title":{"rendered":"Halo, Halo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19181\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/haloD7DL5207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/haloD7DL5207.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/haloD7DL5207-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Another very warm and sunny so-called autumn day. A2 was out watching a very feeble sundog and willing it to brighten up when she looked up and saw not one, but two, very bright arcs nested together. Possibly a segment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/atoptics.co.uk\/halo\/circim2.htm\">circumscribed halo<\/a>.<br \/>\nMeanwhile A1 is reading <em>Death of a Lesser God<\/em> by Vaseem Khan, which has a pleasingly complex plot and is much darker than previous volumes (and is all the better for it). But VK does enjoy his similes&#8230;<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>The Misper<\/em> by Kate London (thank you A1), a boy goes missing under the influence of a County Lines panjandrum who is himself under the influence of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> (an unnecessary distraction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another very warm and sunny so-called autumn day. A2 was out watching a very feeble sundog and willing it to brighten up when she looked up and saw not one, but two, very bright arcs nested together. Possibly a segment of a circumscribed halo. Meanwhile A1 is reading Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halo, Halo!&#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":[13,5],"tags":[19,20,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180"}],"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=19180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19192,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180\/revisions\/19192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}