{"id":1601,"date":"2017-07-08T19:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2017-07-08T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:44:35","slug":"its-july-now-so-err-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/its-july-now-so-err-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s July now.   So, erm, progress&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive but not much has happened on the house since the last blog entry.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been busy &#8211; I came back from Sweden at the end of May then went to Finland for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Since the last post I have been on a &#8216;diet&#8217; and have lost 5kg (the remaining 7kg is sticking out in the photo below).\u00a0 My cunning plan is to burn off more energy than I eat so I&#8217;ve taken up cycling.\u00a0\u00a0 40 miles of cycling burns a whole day of calories.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on getting a social life too. Someone allegedly once said &#8220;it&#8217;s summer &#8211; go out and have some fun as you&#8217;ll be spending half the winter back in Finland.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t worry about the kitchen or the plastering in the snug &#8211; they will probably sort themselves out&#8221;.\u00a0 Wise words&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water-372x450.jpg\" alt=\"grafham-water\" width=\"372\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water-372x450.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water-826x1000.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water-624x755.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/grafham-water.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive but not much has happened on the house since the last blog entry.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been busy &#8211; I came back from Sweden at the end of May then went to Finland for a few weeks. Since the last post I have been on a &#8216;diet&#8217; and have lost 5kg (the remaining 7kg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}