{"id":22362,"date":"2026-04-18T14:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22362"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:40:42","slug":"jabs-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22362","title":{"rendered":"Jabs for the Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22363\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jabIMG_20260418_112054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jabIMG_20260418_112054.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jabIMG_20260418_112054-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 went for the Covid jab and Salvation Army shopping experience today. Changes: very few punters, you no longer get a certificate and the nurse calls it a sharp prick instead of a sharp scratch or a little prick. And the wall of the long departed <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?tag=jabberwok\">Jabberwock<\/a> has been painted over again. [Aside: A1&#8217;s id number at boarding school was 37. But he had <strong>nothing to do with this<\/strong>. Honest.]<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Tom Lake<\/em>* by Ann Patchett, featuring three sisters in a cherry orchard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A2 went for the Covid jab and Salvation Army shopping experience today. Changes: very few punters, you no longer get a certificate and the nurse calls it a sharp prick instead of a sharp scratch or a little prick. And the wall of the long departed Jabberwock has been painted over again. [Aside: A1&#8217;s id &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jabs for the Girls&#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],"tags":[20,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362"}],"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=22362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22366,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362\/revisions\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}