{"id":261,"date":"2012-05-05T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-06-05T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:17:47","slug":"fifth-of-may-is-claret-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Fifth of May is Claret Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was researching my Masters dissertation on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, I was lucky enough to handle his notebooks in the British Library. Tiny little things, like books of stamps, leather-bound, and <em>in my hands<\/em>. I was delirious. One of the happiest days of my life. All those poem-snippets, the cryptic notes to himself, the fingernail sketches. He felt so close, as if when I went on my break he&#8217;d be there in the caf\u00e9 to meet me for a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst many sad things and many funny things, this note on one of the 1870s pages caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAY 5 &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CLARET<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No indication of whether he was referring to wine or just the colour, or why the date was significant. But since then, every year on May the fifth, I&#8217;ve bought a cheap bottle of red plonk and enjoyed it in honour of the dear old DGR.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_267\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wombatclaret1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267 \" title=\"Wombat claret\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wombatclaret1-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wombatclaret1-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wombatclaret1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, you have to involve a wombat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy Claret Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was researching my Masters dissertation on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, I was lucky enough to handle his notebooks in the British Library. Tiny little things, like books of stamps, leather-bound, and in my hands. I was delirious. One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,7],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-rossetti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}