{"id":19200,"date":"2023-09-13T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:05:08","slug":"second-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19200","title":{"rendered":"Second Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19201\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/poppyD7DL5210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/poppyD7DL5210.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/poppyD7DL5210-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe warm weather has filled our garden with a second showing of poppies, cornflowers, magnolias, rhododendrons and millions of passion flowers but the cool and rainy days (25.5 mm yesterday) have returned.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Holly<\/em> by Stephen King. This is SK&#8217;s COVID novel, featuring his well-drawn private eye heroine Holly Gibney. Full of ire about Trump, COVID conspiracy theories and medical pseudoscience &#8212; &#8220;She didn&#8217;t die of COVID, she died of stupidity&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s an enthralling look at how the US citizenry reacted to the pandemic.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Death of a Lesser God<\/em> by Vaseem Khan (thx A1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warm weather has filled our garden with a second showing of poppies, cornflowers, magnolias, rhododendrons and millions of passion flowers but the cool and rainy days (25.5 mm yesterday) have returned. A1 is reading Holly by Stephen King. This is SK&#8217;s COVID novel, featuring his well-drawn private eye heroine Holly Gibney. Full of ire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Spring&#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":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200"}],"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=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19232,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}