{"id":392,"date":"2008-02-14T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-02-14T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:30:32","slug":"vd-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"VD (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>That&#8217;s (1) because there will be others, natch. That&#8217;s natch not snatch, that&#8217;s something completely different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I arrive home, knackered.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a day of many events, more than the usual amount of stuff going on. All of it going on in my face.<\/p>\n<p>A three and a half hour workshop facilitation and umm, let me think&#8230; four meetings. And the necessary admin, paperwork and emails. A couple of phone calls. Much, much reading. And travel to and from.<\/p>\n<p>This had been my day up until arrival back at the home.<\/p>\n<p>Where The Lovely S was serving up a spectacular tea, a bottle of chilled champagne awaiting attention, candles on the table, music playing softly.<\/p>\n<p>And the smart new Prada glasses perched on her nose.<\/p>\n<p>And the, erm, interesting style of dress.<\/p>\n<p>The meal gone, the champagne mysteriously vanished, the dessert disappeared, the music closed down.<\/p>\n<p>And now bed.<\/p>\n<p>Two episodes of 24 to finish Season Three.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by last night&#8217;s performance I shall be asleep before the first episode has ended.<\/p>\n<p>But oh, what a sight for sore and weary eyes this evening has been.<\/p>\n<p>I think St Valentine&#8217;s Day (to give the day its full title) is an over-hyped, commercialised nonsense, perpetrated on an increasingly gullible public by the card- and gift-industry.<\/p>\n<p>But my welcome home tonight was precisely what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s (1) because there will be others, natch. That&#8217;s natch not snatch, that&#8217;s something completely different. I arrive home, knackered. It&#8217;s been a day 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}