{"id":21753,"date":"2025-10-11T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21753"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:09:15","slug":"21753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21753","title":{"rendered":"Jab Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21754\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jabsPXL_20251011_103117578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jabsPXL_20251011_103117578.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jabsPXL_20251011_103117578-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Alas, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?tag=jabberwok\">jabberwock<\/a> has gone (perhaps defeated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jabberwocky\">frumious Bandersnatch, or the Jubjub bird<\/a>) and so have the COVID shots for under-75s. Still, we had what jabs we could get and are back home with uncomfortable arms.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Society of Unknowable Objects*<\/em> by Gareth Brown, a bad children&#8217;s fantasy with added swearing and violence. It&#8217;s not precisely a sequel to <em>The Book of Doors<\/em> (which worked much better) but is set in the same universe and has references to it. Disappointing.<br \/>\nIn anticipation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rose_Field\">forthcoming final volume<\/a> of Philip Pullman&#8217;s <em>Book of Dust<\/em> trilogy, A2 is rereading volume 1, <em>La Belle Sauvage<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, the jabberwock has gone (perhaps defeated by the frumious Bandersnatch, or the Jubjub bird) and so have the COVID shots for under-75s. Still, we had what jabs we could get and are back home with uncomfortable arms. A1 is reading The Society of Unknowable Objects* by Gareth Brown, a bad children&#8217;s fantasy with added &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jab Day&#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":[19,20,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753"}],"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=21753"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21771,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}