{"id":21663,"date":"2025-09-18T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21663"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:12:57","slug":"not-a-fun-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21663","title":{"rendered":"Not a Fun Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21664\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fungusIMG_20250918_153032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fungusIMG_20250918_153032.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fungusIMG_20250918_153032-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A Miserable Mushroom in the woods.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Art of a Lie<\/em> by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a Georgian-era picaresque novel. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Fielding\">Henry Fielding<\/a>, one of the originators of this type of fiction (<em>Tom Jones<\/em>), is a character. It&#8217;s very hard to write about this terrific and wonderfully well-written book without spoilers, so you&#8217;ll just have to read it yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Miserable Mushroom in the woods. A1 is reading The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a Georgian-era picaresque novel. Indeed, Henry Fielding, one of the originators of this type of fiction (Tom Jones), is a character. It&#8217;s very hard to write about this terrific and wonderfully well-written book without spoilers, so you&#8217;ll just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Fun Guy&#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":[19,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663"}],"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=21663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21675,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663\/revisions\/21675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}