{"id":171,"date":"2020-09-23T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/?p=171"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:45:20","slug":"my-one-and-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/my-one-and-only\/","title":{"rendered":"My One and Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Am I talking about a long lost love&#8230;&#8230;..no I am not? I am talking about my one and only tattoo. I was approaching 60 and I did not want a big party or any secret celebrations&#8230;.so I decided to have a tattoo so hubby paid for it. I decided to have an owl&#8230;&#8230;I love owls as family and friends are aware of. So I found a lovely simple barn owl that would sit lovely on my left shoulder with no legs dangling as I was still working and the legs would not stick outside the sleeve of my uniform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All my family were so sure that I would not do it so I was determined to even as the day approached I was wondering whether to go through with it or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day dawned and I was so nervous. I decided to go on my own. Has been told to have a sugary iced bun about a half-hour before. My hands felt clammy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A long walk up Guildford High St to the tattoo parlour where I waited my turn. Asked if I wanted just the outline or parts coloured in so at first I said &#8220;just the outline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I talking about a long lost love&#8230;&#8230;..no I am not? I am talking about my one and only tattoo. I was approaching 60 and I did not want a big party or any secret celebrations&#8230;.so I decided to have a tattoo so hubby paid for it. I decided to have an owl&#8230;&#8230;I love owls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}