{"id":19988,"date":"2024-05-01T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19988"},"modified":"2024-05-11T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:22:56","slug":"may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19988","title":{"rendered":"May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?tag=the-garden-after\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19991\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mayday2IMG_20240501_184812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mayday2IMG_20240501_184812.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mayday2IMG_20240501_184812-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The garden after<\/a> the second coldest, third wettest and fourth least sunny April on our records, though yesterday was our warmest (20.1 \u00b0C) and sunniest (11.218kWh) day this year before the mist and clouds rolled in again. And the bluebells have overtaken the tulips once again, the magnolias are over, the foxgloves are gone but the apples are blossoming like crazy.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Spy<\/em> by Ajay Chowdhury. A2 is rereading <em>Cryptonomicon<\/em> by Neal Stephenson, which took ten days to read because it is so full of crunchy goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The garden after the second coldest, third wettest and fourth least sunny April on our records, though yesterday was our warmest (20.1 \u00b0C) and sunniest (11.218kWh) day this year before the mist and clouds rolled in again. And the bluebells have overtaken the tulips once again, the magnolias are over, the foxgloves are gone but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=19988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May Day&#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":[7,5],"tags":[19,20,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988"}],"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=19988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20022,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988\/revisions\/20022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}