{"id":22516,"date":"2026-06-24T20:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:26:43","slug":"life-is-just-a-bowl-of-cherries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22516","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22517\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cherriesPXL_20260624_180956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cherriesPXL_20260624_180956.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cherriesPXL_20260624_180956-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The cherries are a small selection from our garden tree. The books are presents for the birthday boy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22518\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BDAYIMG_20260624_111643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BDAYIMG_20260624_111643.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BDAYIMG_20260624_111643-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22519\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/triflePXL_20260624_17303614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/triflePXL_20260624_17303614.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/triflePXL_20260624_17303614-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/triflePXL_20260624_17303614-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/>On the equal hottest day of the month A2 cooked a dinner of roast pork, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, gravy, carrots, broccoli and garden peas, followed by a leftover carrot cake trifle with garden cherries on top. Enjoy!<br \/>\nA2 is rereading <em>Slough House<\/em> by Mick Herron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cherries are a small selection from our garden tree. The books are presents for the birthday boy. On the equal hottest day of the month A2 cooked a dinner of roast pork, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, gravy, carrots, broccoli and garden peas, followed by a leftover carrot cake trifle with garden cherries on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries&#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":[20,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516"}],"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=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22520,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions\/22520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}