{"id":2446,"date":"2002-05-17T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2002-05-17T08:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2002-05-17T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2002-05-17T08:34:56","slug":"i-was-thinking-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/05\/17\/i-was-thinking-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"I was thinking this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking this morning (in the bath &#8211; it&#8217;s a good place for thinking) about how past relationships can influence a person&#8217;s life in even quite subtle ways, and sometimes those influences stay with us for a very long time. For example: food and drink. As regular readers may know, I&#8217;m quite a foodie &#8211; I love food and drink, enjoy cooking, love buying food and eating good meals. But there are many foods and drinks that I&#8217;ve only discovered through the influence of relationships:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bagels &#8211; introduced to me by Kate<\/li>\n<li>chinese food &#8211; Jill (no, really! I never ate Chinese food before I met her)<\/li>\n<li>chorizo &#8211; Andrea<\/li>\n<li>pinot grigio &#8211; Louise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;the list goes on. And don&#8217;t get me started on the influence of people I&#8217;ve known on my taste in art, architecture, music and literature.<br \/>\nOf course, this isn&#8217;t really rocket science. It&#8217;s just the realization that people you know and love have an influence on you.<br \/>\nI can be very profound in the bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking this morning (in the bath &#8211; it&#8217;s a good place for thinking) about how past relationships can influence a person&#8217;s life in even quite subtle ways, and sometimes those influences stay with us for a very long time. For example: food and drink. As regular readers may know, I&#8217;m quite a foodie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}