{"id":1672,"date":"2018-02-14T23:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2018-02-16T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:31:23","slug":"back-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/back-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Back at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know when things are about to get rough&#8230; they close the deadlights! Those are the shutters that cover the portholes in case of adverse weather conditions. Cabins that have windows (ours has portholes) have large wooden covers that have to be bolted securely into place; they were systematically working their way down the ship installing the covers this morning, and the sick-bag fairy has been out and about&#8230; all slightly worrying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The swell has been gradually increasing throughout the day, but things never quite got so bad that I couldn&#8217;t run the classes. When stuff doesn&#8217;t stay on the tables, that&#8217;s generally the point at which you quit. Today, I taught them how to paint stone walls and sheep.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we went along to watch a new Guest Act, comedian Clark Stewart who must have joined us in Ponta Delgada. We enjoyed him very much.<\/p>\n<p>After the show, it seemed too early to be heading back to the cabin (even though clocks went forward tonight), so we finished up in the pub playing darts (I lost all 3 games&#8230; again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know when things are about to get rough&#8230; they close the deadlights! Those are the shutters that cover the portholes in case of adverse weather conditions. Cabins that have windows (ours has portholes) have large wooden covers that have to be bolted securely into place; they were systematically working their way down the ship installing the covers this morning,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}