{"id":20734,"date":"2024-12-21T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2024-12-25T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:51:57","slug":"windy-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20734","title":{"rendered":"Windy Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rainbowIMG_20241221_111849.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rainbowIMG_20241221_111849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rainbowIMG_20241221_111849-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Today was unconscionably blustery; bins blowing everywhere. A2 had to keep stopping and planting herself foursquare (legs, stick and shopping trolley) to avoid being blown off course. But she emerged from a ginnel like a wind tunnel to the sight of this evanescent rainbow. Then the sun went away and the wind blew on.<br \/>\nA2, inspired by a list of Christmas crime novels in the newspaper, is rereading <em>Hangover Square<\/em> by Patrick Hamilton, which starts with Christmas and ends with a crime but is really a story of a man remorselessly exploited by a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was unconscionably blustery; bins blowing everywhere. A2 had to keep stopping and planting herself foursquare (legs, stick and shopping trolley) to avoid being blown off course. But she emerged from a ginnel like a wind tunnel to the sight of this evanescent rainbow. Then the sun went away and the wind blew on. A2, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windy Solstice&#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":[5],"tags":[20,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734"}],"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=20734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20748,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions\/20748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}