{"id":21836,"date":"2025-11-02T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21836"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:17:52","slug":"coffee-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21836","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del datetime=\"2025-11-02T13:54:47+00:00\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21837\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffeePXL_20251102_11343936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffeePXL_20251102_11343936.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffeePXL_20251102_11343936-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/del><del datetime=\"2025-11-02T13:54:47+00:00\"><\/del>A2 is now descending\/ascending the stairs! Huzzah! But we were still not ready for a family meal today so we had one flat white, one long black, one macchiato, one cappuccino and two espressos, served with stollen, croissants and biscuits (and a ton of sweets, mistakenly bought in expectation of Helloween visitations). We did this week&#8217;s and last week&#8217;s quiz, scoring 10.5 on one and 11 on the other.<del datetime=\"2025-11-02T13:54:47+00:00\"><\/del><br \/>\nA1 is rereading <em>\u2019Salem&#8217;s Lot<\/em> by Stephen King. A2 is reading <em>Rosy &#038; John<\/em>* by Pierre Lemaitre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A2 is now descending\/ascending the stairs! Huzzah! But we were still not ready for a family meal today so we had one flat white, one long black, one macchiato, one cappuccino and two espressos, served with stollen, croissants and biscuits (and a ton of sweets, mistakenly bought in expectation of Helloween visitations). We did this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coffee Morning&#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":[16],"tags":[19,20,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836"}],"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=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21969,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/21969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}