{"id":3148,"date":"2019-11-10T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglophones.fr\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2019-11-10T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T19:12:00","slug":"book-club-goes-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/book-club-goes-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club goes International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our book club members were very excited when we were approached with a proposal for a meeting between a book club in Jersey and ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>After a great deal of liaising and planning, our Jersey guests arrived on the Saturday afternoon. The evening was kindly hosted at the home of a member of the Coutances-Jersey twinning group.<\/p>\n<p>The evening started with ap\u00e9ros. Then we sat down to a cornucopia of food, punctuated by much talk and laughter as we became acquainted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/anglophones.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" aling=\"left\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Having eaten our fill, it was down to the serious business of dis-cussing the chosen book. This was The Handmaid\u2019s Tale by Margaret Atwood.<\/p>\n<p>The evening came to a close and the hosts took their guests home with them for a well earned sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday saw us all meet up in La Pergola, on the outskirts of Coutances, enjoying yet more food and conversation before saying &#8220;adieu&#8221; to our new friends.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/anglophones.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bi3.jpg\" alt=\"\" aling=\"left\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our book club members were very excited when we were approached with a proposal for a meeting between a book club in Jersey and ourselves. After a great deal of liaising and planning, our Jersey guests arrived on the Saturday afternoon. The evening was kindly hosted at the home of a member of the Coutances-Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-clubs-and-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglo.brandydigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}