{"id":22427,"date":"2026-05-24T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22427"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:25:26","slug":"happy-birthday-dave-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22427","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foodPXL_20260524_171007158..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foodPXL_20260524_171007158..jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foodPXL_20260524_171007158.-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>It&#8217;s Commonwealth Day and also Dave&#8217;s birthday so we ate Swedish meatballs to celebrate his origins and A1 served up a lovely cake with candles, peach slices and sprinkles on top. Afterwards we did the quiz with Ivy as quizmaster and scored a steadying 10.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Death at the Sanatorium<\/em>* by Ragnar Jonasson. A2 is reading <em>The Mask of Dimitrios<\/em> by Eric Ambler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Commonwealth Day and also Dave&#8217;s birthday so we ate Swedish meatballs to celebrate his origins and A1 served up a lovely cake with candles, peach slices and sprinkles on top. Afterwards we did the quiz with Ivy as quizmaster and scored a steadying 10. A1 is reading Death at the Sanatorium* by Ragnar Jonasson. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday Dave&#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":[19,20,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427"}],"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=22427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22430,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions\/22430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}