{"id":22253,"date":"2026-03-08T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:19:04","slug":"happy-international-womens-day-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22253","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Women&#8217;s Day, Ladies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22254\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cakePXL_20260308_182643081..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cakePXL_20260308_182643081..jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cakePXL_20260308_182643081.-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Here&#8217;s a delicious cherry bakewell cake to celebrate, after the main dish of pork in cider and before we scored 12 on the GSQ.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Quantum of Menace<\/em>* by Vaseem Khan, who should stick with Indian detectives rather than pseudo-American thrillers and (as here) feeble James Bond tie-ins.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>The Bells of Westminster<\/em>* by Leonora Nattrass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a delicious cherry bakewell cake to celebrate, after the main dish of pork in cider and before we scored 12 on the GSQ. A1 is reading Quantum of Menace* by Vaseem Khan, who should stick with Indian detectives rather than pseudo-American thrillers and (as here) feeble James Bond tie-ins. A2 is reading The Bells &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy International Women&#8217;s Day, Ladies!&#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":[19,20,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253"}],"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=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22257,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}