{"id":22011,"date":"2025-12-28T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22011"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:09:02","slug":"another-family-meal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22011","title":{"rendered":"Another Family Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22012\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dinnerIMG_20251228_175900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dinnerIMG_20251228_175900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dinnerIMG_20251228_175900-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The last family gathering of this quarter-century at which we ate chicken bacon broccoli and a tiny banana blueberry white chocolate cake and scored 12 on the last quiz of the year for a fairly neat average of 10.225, a step down from last year&#8217;s 10.2268518518519, and another step down from 2023\u2019s 10.2756346153846. Onwards and upwards everyone!<br \/>\nPrompted by watching series 5 of <em>Slow Horses<\/em>, A1 is rereading <em>London Rules<\/em> by Mick Herron (on which it&#8217;s based), to remind himself how much better the books are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last family gathering of this quarter-century at which we ate chicken bacon broccoli and a tiny banana blueberry white chocolate cake and scored 12 on the last quiz of the year for a fairly neat average of 10.225, a step down from last year&#8217;s 10.2268518518519, and another step down from 2023\u2019s 10.2756346153846. Onwards and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Family Meal&#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":[19,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011"}],"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=22011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22028,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions\/22028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}