{"id":22085,"date":"2026-01-20T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22085"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:15:10","slug":"fungal-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22085","title":{"rendered":"Fungal Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fungiIMG_20260119_152848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fungiIMG_20260119_152848.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fungiIMG_20260119_152848-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2&#8217;s travels took her past many rotting tree trunks sporting a fine selection of fungi. Here are some of them.<br \/>\nIn other news, geomagnetic activity was very lively this evening and, in a small gap in the black clouds, we photographed a purple thing in the sky which was possibly a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/science-research\/heliophysics\/nasa-needs-your-help-to-find-steve-and-heres-how\/\">STEVE<\/a>. No aurora though.<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/purpleIMGP0032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/purpleIMGP0032.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/purpleIMGP0032-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 is reading <em>The Passengers on the Hankyu Line<\/em> by Hiro Arikawa. Time was, writers like Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe dug into the raw depths of the human soul. Now it&#8217;s all trains or cats <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tama_(cat)\">or both<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A2&#8217;s travels took her past many rotting tree trunks sporting a fine selection of fungi. Here are some of them. In other news, geomagnetic activity was very lively this evening and, in a small gap in the black clouds, we photographed a purple thing in the sky which was possibly a STEVE. No aurora though.A2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fungal Infection&#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":[17,18,13],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085"}],"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=22085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22095,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085\/revisions\/22095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}