{"id":21989,"date":"2025-12-24T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:24:09","slug":"oh-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21989","title":{"rendered":"Oh Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21990\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/xmasIMGP0016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/xmasIMGP0016.jpg 343w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/xmasIMGP0016-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 85vw, 343px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets and stuffing balls are ready and the Christmas presents are all wrapped up and awaiting the grand opening. Tomorrow we feast and the next day we feast again.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Rosy and John<\/em>* by Pierre Lemaitre. A2 is rereading <em>On the Yankee Station<\/em> by William Boyd; short stories mostly about young men lusting after random women and generally failing to score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets and stuffing balls are ready and the Christmas presents are all wrapped up and awaiting the grand opening. Tomorrow we feast and the next day we feast again. A1 is reading Rosy and John* by Pierre Lemaitre. A2 is rereading On the Yankee Station by William Boyd; short stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh Christmas Tree&#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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989"}],"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=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21993,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions\/21993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}