{"id":833,"date":"2006-06-22T05:39:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/22\/22-june-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T05:39:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T05:39:42","slug":"22-june-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"22 June 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1150979982-sc-116.jpg?w=333\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-834\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A lovely picture of my father-in-law, Oliver Cousens, discovered in a small album kept by his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Midsummer is gone, and the nights don&#8217;t look any different really. Today is still quite close, but also windy and so not all that pleasant. This morning I went into the city for an eye test. Everything was well &#8211; so no explanation for why my tears burn like acid. <\/p>\n<p>Dropped in at a revamped Prospect House, where the editorial floor looks quite smooth but has obvious defects, like no privacy, which is needed in a newspaper office &#8211; and most offices. Plenty of glass and carpets, except for the back stairs, which are as bare and unpleasant as they always were. Had a substantial conversation with Bernadette about Jules&#8217; shorthand. She is in a corner with no door &#8211; rather sad.<\/p>\n<p>Dot is at a garden centre, buying stuff for hanging baskets. I like to say that garden centres are like caravans and dogs &#8211; things the world would be much better without &#8211; but I am mellowing towards them. That doesn&#8217;t mean I would go to one voluntarily, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely picture of my father-in-law, Oliver Cousens, discovered in a small album kept by his wife. Midsummer is gone, and the nights don&#8217;t look any different really. Today is still quite close, but also windy and so not all that pleasant. This morning I went into the city for an eye test. Everything was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 June 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-833","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\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}