{"id":20932,"date":"2025-01-25T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20932"},"modified":"2025-01-25T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:14:08","slug":"cake-of-the-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20932","title":{"rendered":"Cake of the Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20933\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snakeIMG_20250125_203620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snakeIMG_20250125_203620.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snakeIMG_20250125_203620-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>It&#8217;s Lunar New Year soon and A1 has made a cherry and almond cake for our family banquet tomorrow and A2 has made a snake out of butter icing, blueberries and squashed marshmallows dipped in food colouring.<br \/>\nA1 is rereading <em>Boiling a Frog<\/em> by Christopher Brookmyre. A2 is reading <em>The Bezzle<\/em>* by Cory Doctorow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Lunar New Year soon and A1 has made a cherry and almond cake for our family banquet tomorrow and A2 has made a snake out of butter icing, blueberries and squashed marshmallows dipped in food colouring. A1 is rereading Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre. A2 is reading The Bezzle* by Cory Doctorow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[19,20,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932"}],"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=20932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20934,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}