{"id":22469,"date":"2026-06-04T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22469"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:34:32","slug":"gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22469","title":{"rendered":"Gold at the End of the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldfinchF7DL6074.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldfinchF7DL6074.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldfinchF7DL6074-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Woke up this morning, sun shining through the rain. Looked for the rainbow and instead saw, through the rain-blurred glass, what seemed to be a giant black and yellow bee sitting on a cornflower. Got a better look; it was a goldfinch eating the cornflower seeds. The rainbow arrived later. Here it is:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rainbowIMG_20260604_191441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rainbowIMG_20260604_191441.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rainbowIMG_20260604_191441-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Meanwhile A1 is reading <em>The Third Nero<\/em>* by Lindsey Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning, sun shining through the rain. Looked for the rainbow and instead saw, through the rain-blurred glass, what seemed to be a giant black and yellow bee sitting on a cornflower. Got a better look; it was a goldfinch eating the cornflower seeds. The rainbow arrived later. Here it is: Meanwhile A1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gold at the End of the Rainbow&#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":[5,14],"tags":[19,29,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469"}],"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=22469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22473,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions\/22473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}