{"id":22816,"date":"2026-10-04T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22816"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:57:13","slug":"dish-of-the-day-cottage-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22816","title":{"rendered":"Dish of the Day: Cottage Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/foodPXL_20261004_170414221..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/foodPXL_20261004_170414221..jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/foodPXL_20261004_170414221.-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Served with sprouts and followed by apple crumble with clotted cream and custard. We did last week&#8217;s and this week&#8217;s quizzes and scored 9 on one and <strong>thirteen<\/strong> on the other, bringing our average back above 10 at last.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Cold Sunset<\/em> by William Boyd. A2&#8217;s lav lit is <em>Y: The Descent of Men<\/em> by Steve Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Served with sprouts and followed by apple crumble with clotted cream and custard. We did last week&#8217;s and this week&#8217;s quizzes and scored 9 on one and thirteen on the other, bringing our average back above 10 at last. A1 is reading Cold Sunset by William Boyd. A2&#8217;s lav lit is Y: The Descent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dish of the Day: Cottage Pie&#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":[19,20,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816"}],"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=22816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22818,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}