{"id":20749,"date":"2024-12-25T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20749"},"modified":"2024-12-25T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:26:23","slug":"so-this-is-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20749","title":{"rendered":"So This Is Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/presentsPXL_20241225_105237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/presentsPXL_20241225_105237.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/presentsPXL_20241225_105237-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\nThe tree is lit and the presents are unwrapped. Lots of books and art stuff for A2, even more books and a computer (Pi500) for A1, coffee, a new wok and films to watch for us all. And here is our traditional Christmas dinner: potatoes, sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, gravy and enough roast pork to last us into the New Year.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/foodPXL_20241225_175843456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/foodPXL_20241225_175843456.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/foodPXL_20241225_175843456-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 is about to read <em>Absolution<\/em> by Jeff Vandermeer (thx A1). We are watching <em>Slow Horses<\/em> Season 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tree is lit and the presents are unwrapped. Lots of books and art stuff for A2, even more books and a computer (Pi500) for A1, coffee, a new wok and films to watch for us all. And here is our traditional Christmas dinner: potatoes, sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So This Is Christmas&#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":[32,16],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749"}],"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=20749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20754,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749\/revisions\/20754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}