{"id":606,"date":"2010-11-28T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2010-11-28T09:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T09:17:37","slug":"november-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"November blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is snowing heavily on this Sunday morning at 08:52.\u00a0 I am feeling fairly despondent about that, for the simple reason that it makes travel so difficult.\u00a0 We all know how long it lasted previously and I will have to focus to stay upbeat about life in general. \u00a0 The front garden birds are hopping in and out of the squirrel proof cage and I really must go and put out extra rations.<\/p>\n

I tried to take a picture out of the upstairs window but snow is notoriously difficult to render on film (a point made clear to us with unbelieveably detailed emphasis by the Coen brothers, during a lecture on The Hudsucker Proxy<\/em> at the Edinburgh Film Festival many years ago.)\u00a0\u00a0 So, here is a picture of someone enjoying the snow very much.\u00a0 Mercedes the polar bear revels in her big new enclosure at The Highland Wildlife Park.<\/p>\n

\"Mercedes\"<\/a>
Mercedes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mincers played at the DB Bowling Club last night and our spontaneous (not) banter went down well.\u00a0 The central heating is a bit fierce though, I had a pint of iced water and a flask of tea down my neck and I still dried on one of the high notes. But it’s very important for us to perform as it concentrates the mind wonderfully.<\/p>\n

I am also listening to last night’s X Factor on the ITV Player, cannot decide if having Wagner sing Creep <\/em>by Radiohead was a masterstroke or utter cruelty.\u00a0\u00a0 Good song though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is snowing heavily on this Sunday morning at 08:52.\u00a0 I am feeling fairly despondent about that, for the simple reason that it makes travel so difficult.\u00a0 We all know how long it lasted previously and I will have to focus to stay upbeat about life in general. \u00a0 The front garden birds are hopping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}