{"id":20232,"date":"2024-07-15T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:08:45","slug":"thistle-do-nicely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20232","title":{"rendered":"Thistle Do Nicely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20233\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/thistleIMGP0029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/thistleIMGP0029.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/thistleIMGP0029-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>There are no good clouds or wildlife at the moment so A2 is reduced to wandering the byways admiring the fine selection of weeds. When we deliberately attempt to plant wildflowers nothing comes up.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Prey<\/em>* by Yrsa Sigurdasdottir, a horror short story expanded tediously to novel length. A2 is reading <em>Gallows Rock<\/em>*, also by Yrsa Sigurdasdottir, which was not as ghastly as <em>The Prey<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no good clouds or wildlife at the moment so A2 is reduced to wandering the byways admiring the fine selection of weeds. When we deliberately attempt to plant wildflowers nothing comes up. A1 is reading The Prey* by Yrsa Sigurdasdottir, a horror short story expanded tediously to novel length. A2 is reading Gallows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thistle Do Nicely&#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":[18],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232"}],"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=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20262,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}