{"id":22146,"date":"2026-02-08T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22146"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:11:13","slug":"chicken-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22146","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22147\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/triflePXL_20260208_18320153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/triflePXL_20260208_18320153.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/triflePXL_20260208_18320153-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Another family dinner. A1 roasted a delicious chicken with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, carrots and broccoli and A2 made a wobbly trifle. We did this week&#8217;s and last week&#8217;s GSQs and scored 10 on the first and 10.5 on the second.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>It&#8217;s Not a Cult<\/em> by Joey Batey, a debut horror\/fantasy novel about an alt-folk band in northern England who manage to conjure up a legion of Solkats &#8212; small gods of trivial things like empty glasses and bruises. JB (day job: actor) claims to have been writing for years without getting published, and you can perhaps see why: it&#8217;s horribly over-written. Some interesting ideas and touches of humour, but he&#8217;s clearly been paying obeisance to the Solkat of purple prose.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Century Rain<\/em> by Alastair Reynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another family dinner. A1 roasted a delicious chicken with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, carrots and broccoli and A2 made a wobbly trifle. We did this week&#8217;s and last week&#8217;s GSQs and scored 10 on the first and 10.5 on the second. A1 is reading It&#8217;s Not a Cult by Joey Batey, a debut horror\/fantasy novel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicken Tonight&#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\/22146"}],"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=22146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22153,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions\/22153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}