{"id":147,"date":"2009-03-01T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-03-01T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T22:28:00","slug":"happy-st-davids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/happy-st-davids-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St Davids day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/wales\/images\/chirk-wales-walk-13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lovely, lovely St Davids day!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the lovely Em, I&#8217;ve enjoyed a delightful leek bake today, followed by a plateful of delicious Welsh cakes. Welsh cakes rock.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Eme holding a tin full of cakes she baked for last year&#8217;s Offline St David&#8217;s Day special. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/albert-march08-02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Someone asked me a while ago what a Welsh accent sounded like. Here&#8217;s my reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What exactly does a Welsh accent sound like?? Like Richard Burton. Like the Treorchy Male Voice Choir. Like butter across a freshly baked Welsh cake. Like Slack Blodwyn from Tiger Bay after six pints of SA. Like a warm summer breeze on the slopes of Snowdon. Like Shirley on a Vegas encore. Like Tom&#8217;s Green Green Grass. Like the sound of the onion bag bulging as Cardiff surge into the FA Cup Final.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See lots of photos from Wales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/wales\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, lovely St Davids day! Thanks to the lovely Em, I&#8217;ve enjoyed a delightful leek bake today, followed by a plateful of delicious Welsh cakes. Welsh cakes rock. Here&#8217;s Eme &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","category-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/chirk-wales-walk-13.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}