{"id":218,"date":"2008-08-24T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-08-24T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T07:22:25","slug":"gone-all-dorothy-gale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"gone all Dorothy Gale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back. The early-ish morning light is shining across the living room through a big grey raincloud (that&#8217;ll be Lancashire in August, then) and I&#8217;m suddenly filled with a warm happy feeling.<\/p>\n<p>There is, indeed, no place like home.<\/p>\n<p>Just spent a few days in Southampton &amp; Twickenham with the kids visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/curlyminx.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">bezzy mate<\/a> &amp; Ken&amp;co. The kids had a ball, and I had a pretty good time, too. The &#8220;hard dolls&#8221; were brought out again, Joel got a really hard Scooby Doo jigsaw, and called all of Ken&#8217;s kids Rachel. We visited hobbycraft &amp; only bought what we went in for (well, nearly), bought school shoes, and (finally) met The CurlyMinx herself on a trip to Marwell Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a good week, but a tiring drive back.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the car&#8217;s cooling system has sprug a leak, so possibly an expensive week coming up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back. The early-ish morning light is shining across the living room through a big grey raincloud (that&#8217;ll be Lancashire in August, then) and I&#8217;m suddenly filled with a warm happy feeling. There is, indeed, no place like home. Just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-pleased-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}