{"id":12559,"date":"2018-06-14T19:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2018-06-14T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:53:01","slug":"blogathon-14-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12559","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 14\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now you know that I like a drink, right?<\/p>\n<p>No, not that sort of a drink.<\/p>\n<p>Well I do like that sort of a drink.<\/p>\n<p>But sparingly.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I had one of those drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. About three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I had a pint of cider shandy.<\/p>\n<p>Because, you know, I&#8217;d really have a skinfull of booze and get on a superbike and ride it down Nottingham&#8217;s A52 ring road.<\/p>\n<p>Not.<\/p>\n<p>And before that the last of that type of drink I had was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Erm.<\/p>\n<p>Umm.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>No, I can&#8217;t remember when.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this isn&#8217;t about that kind of drink.<\/p>\n<p>And actually I&#8217;m not sure what it is about, but here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, after battling my way back from dahn sarf, just off of that London, we went out.<\/p>\n<p>For pizza.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, we were driving through West Bridgford, when we saw a young lad, standing at the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>He was about 14yo, holding up a banner sign.<\/p>\n<p>It said (something like):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Home-Made Elderflower Cordial, \u00a35\/bottle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So we stopped and bought a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Why would we?<\/p>\n<p>Just because we wanted to give an enterprising young lad a bit of support.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the only person in the house who would drink that kind of stuff, so I took it to work this morning, and cracked the bottle open after lunch.<\/p>\n<p>And you know how it tastes?<\/p>\n<p>It tastes exactly like Elderflower Cordial.<\/p>\n<p>So now I have lots of stuff to drink at work, because I took a new bottle of squash concentrate in this morning as well.<\/p>\n<p>And a new container of instant hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12560\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12560\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180614_150612-e1529002350444-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elderflower Cordial\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180614_150612-e1529002350444-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180614_150612-e1529002350444-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180614_150612-e1529002350444-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elderflower Cordial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026 Now you know that I like a drink, right? No, not that sort of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}