{"id":21432,"date":"2025-06-27T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21432"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:23:05","slug":"24-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21432","title":{"rendered":"24 (Wonderful) Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21433\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/annivPXL_20250627_163421896.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/annivPXL_20250627_163421896.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/annivPXL_20250627_163421896-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s A1&amp;2&#8217;s wedding anniversary and a delicious cherry cake was baked to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>A1 gave A2 a bunch of flowers and our number 6 coffee maker; a handy little gadget for making one cup of espresso, and A2 gave A1 <em>The Red Shore<\/em> by William Shaw in advance of publication.<\/p>\n<p>It was our opal wedding so A2 got a packet of [redacted], previously known as Opal Fruits, and A1 got an opal (see below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/op3MGP0008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/op3MGP0008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/op3MGP0008-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 is rereading <em>Disgrace<\/em> by Jussi Adler Olsen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s A1&amp;2&#8217;s wedding anniversary and a delicious cherry cake was baked to celebrate. A1 gave A2 a bunch of flowers and our number 6 coffee maker; a handy little gadget for making one cup of espresso, and A2 gave A1 The Red Shore by William Shaw in advance of publication. It was our opal wedding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;24 (Wonderful) Years Later&#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],"tags":[20,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432"}],"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=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21439,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions\/21439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}