{"id":21994,"date":"2025-12-25T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21994"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:59:42","slug":"the-girl-and-boy-with-all-the-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21994","title":{"rendered":"The Girl (and Boy) with All the Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GIFTSPXL_20251225_150433954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GIFTSPXL_20251225_150433954.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GIFTSPXL_20251225_150433954-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>We each gave each other copies of <em>The Burning Grounds<\/em> and <em>The Halcyon Years<\/em> but A2 got 2 unduplicated books. Other goodies: hairy shoes, fluffy  socks, a cushion cover, salt and pepper grinders, a yoyo, Shiwa coffee, a turntable and a Raspberry Pi. Lucky us.<br \/>\nWe had succulent tender roast pork, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, carrots, sprouts, spring greens and gravy for dinner. Tomorrow we will eat it all again.<br \/>\nWe are watching <em>Slow Horses<\/em>. A1 is reading <em>The Regulators<\/em> by Stephen King. A2 is reading <em>ICE<\/em> by Jacek Dukaj. Thank you A1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We each gave each other copies of The Burning Grounds and The Halcyon Years but A2 got 2 unduplicated books. Other goodies: hairy shoes, fluffy socks, a cushion cover, salt and pepper grinders, a yoyo, Shiwa coffee, a turntable and a Raspberry Pi. Lucky us. We had succulent tender roast pork, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Girl (and Boy) with All the Gifts&#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":[19,20,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994"}],"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=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}