{"id":1793,"date":"2012-03-18T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wales-win-grand-sla\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:47:56","slug":"wales-win-grand-sla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Wales win the Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt was a very happy afternoon yesterday with Wales beating France 16-9 to win the Grand Slam. It was an extremely physical match, but we deservedly came out as winners, especially as Wales scored the only try of the match.<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZhXY9yWj8LA\/T2YUWx9Fd8I\/AAAAAAAAAQs\/ConWq9rG2qM\/s1600\/CIMG1141.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721282758220019650\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CIMG1141.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAs a celebration, I opened a special bottle of wine for lunch today (photo above), La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 890 1995. I decantered it an hour or so before lunch which helped the wine to open up very nicely. I must say this is one of the best wines that I have drunk for some time. It had a fantastic nose of red fruit, spice, coffee and leather, all in harmony. On the palate the wine was immense without being full-bodied. It showed incredible complexity and elegance with a very long finish. I wish I could afford to drink wines like this every day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\">Food and wine tours in Spain<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very happy afternoon yesterday with Wales beating France 16-9 to win the Grand Slam. It was an extremely physical match, but we deservedly came out as winners, especially as Wales scored the only try of the match. As a celebration, I opened a special bottle of wine for lunch today (photo above), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}