{"id":394,"date":"2010-07-03T21:23:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-07-03T21:23:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:23:56","slug":"day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Day off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we took a day off to get stuff done. And got nothing done on the day off. However, today we went into London early, got our shopping done (but didn&#8217;t get anything to actually bring home for some reason), then walked through London. Joe wanted to get photos for his Assignment 52 &#8211; this week is 4 July and fireworks. So he&#8217;s decided to try to cause a few!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Happy 4th of July\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/albums\/photo\/4757734415\/happy-4th-of-july.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4081\/4757734415_9d0e9ece92.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"Happy 4th of July\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is still lovely weather here so had a lovely walk through Hyde Park and ended up in the midst of the London Pride &#8211; we were at the start area while they were all gathering to start the parade. Great fun!<\/p>\n<p>By this time we were tired so headed home to spend the rest of the day relaxing. Joe is watching football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we took a day off to get stuff done. And got nothing done on the day off. However, today we went into London early, got our shopping done (but didn&#8217;t get anything to actually bring home for some reason), then walked through London. Joe wanted to get photos for his Assignment 52 &#8211; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-6m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":405,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/brideshead-visited\/","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":0},"title":"Brideshead Visited","date":"Friday, 13 August 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So yesterday at some point we saw a leaflet about Castle Howard and Friend said 'oh, they filmed Brideshead Revisited there and I've always wanted to see that!' 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