{"id":790,"date":"2006-09-28T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/28\/28-september-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:35:50","slug":"28-september-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"28 September 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1159472150-sc-142.jpg?w=333\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"212\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-791\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amazingly, I&#8217;ve kept up the walking and have done well over two miles almost every day &#8211; discovering some untrod parts of Thorpe St Andrew in the process. Untrod by me, that is. Feel it&#8217;s doing me good, though the loss of weight is minimal. <\/p>\n<p>Have just an excellent book &#8211; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, over 1000 pages. Written in a Victorian style, but extremely witty, about two magicians trying to restore English magic: wonderfully inventive with lots of historical references and footnotes. Quite compulsive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now on another compulsive story &#8211; Dave Gemmell&#8217;s last: Shield of Thunder. As always, superbly written. I&#8217;m due to say a few words at his memorial service at St James&#8217;s Piccadilly on the day we come back from South Africa. Ho, hum.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the picture? I was afraid you&#8217;d ask. It&#8217;s part of Dot&#8217;s family. The child may be Auntie Ethel or even Dot&#8217;s mum. Rather fine vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly, I&#8217;ve kept up the walking and have done well over two miles almost every day &#8211; discovering some untrod parts of Thorpe St Andrew in the process. Untrod by me, that is. Feel it&#8217;s doing me good, though the loss of weight is minimal. Have just an excellent book &#8211; Jonathan Strange and Mr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">28 September 2006<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}