{"id":19252,"date":"2023-09-26T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19252"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:11:53","slug":"gourds-help-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19252","title":{"rendered":"Gourds Help Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19253\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gourdsIMG_20230925_110110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gourdsIMG_20230925_110110.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gourdsIMG_20230925_110110-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nSome seasonal vegetables.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Running Grave<\/em> by Robert Galbraith which hit the shops today and was sold out in Waterstones by early afternoon. A2 bought the last copy in Smiths. A1 enjoyed this well-plotted and involving novel immensely, but has been struck by the distressing tendency of some reviewers &#8212; perhaps with LBGTQ\/trans\/fat-shaming axes to grind &#8212; to attribute opinions expressed by characters in RG&#8217;s books to their author. Who is, of course, JK Rowling. Other criticisms are perhaps more apposite: too long, too much phonetic transcription of speech. Though neither bothered A1 at all.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Black Thorn<\/em>* by Sarah Hilary: death stalks a jerry-built new housing estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some seasonal vegetables. A1 is reading The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith which hit the shops today and was sold out in Waterstones by early afternoon. A2 bought the last copy in Smiths. A1 enjoyed this well-plotted and involving novel immensely, but has been struck by the distressing tendency of some reviewers &#8212; perhaps with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gourds Help Us&#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":[16],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252"}],"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=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19324,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}