{"id":22189,"date":"2026-02-17T20:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:10:22","slug":"happy-pancake-day-ramadan-chinese-new-year-and-birthday-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22189","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pancake Day, Ramadan, Chinese New Year and Birthday Bob!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22190\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cnyPXL_20260217_181236822.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cnyPXL_20260217_181236822.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cnyPXL_20260217_181236822-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 4px 0px 4px;\">\n<div style=\"width: 402px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-22189-1\" width=\"402\" height=\"226\" loop=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bob10-400.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bob10-400.mp4\">https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bob10-400.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So much to celebrate! We had more food than you can shake a chopstick at, followed by A1&#8217;s sublime chocolate cake with 10 candles and 10 Lego minifigures sunk knee-deep in ganache.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>H<\/strong>Hh<strong>H<\/strong><\/em><\/span> by Laurent Binet. A2 is rereading <em>Valis<\/em> by Philip K Dick. We scored a most excellent 11 on the GSQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much to celebrate! We had more food than you can shake a chopstick at, followed by A1&#8217;s sublime chocolate cake with 10 candles and 10 Lego minifigures sunk knee-deep in ganache. A1 is reading HHhH by Laurent Binet. A2 is rereading Valis by Philip K Dick. We scored a most excellent 11 on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Pancake Day, Ramadan, Chinese New Year and Birthday Bob!&#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":[32,16],"tags":[19,20,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189"}],"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=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22195,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions\/22195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}