{"id":338,"date":"2013-10-04T20:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=338"},"modified":"2013-10-04T20:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:16:59","slug":"tiger-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/10\/tiger-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger! Tiger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chinese astrology I was born in the Year of the Tiger, which might explain why I love them so. \u00a0One of the most amazing moments I experienced while leading singles&#8217; holidays was seeing a tiger walking through the grass in the early morning light in India. Truly magnificent!<\/p>\n<p>So, when I saw the footage of a baby tiger that&#8217;s been born in the zoo I gave a great big smile. Watching the huge mother lick him (or her apparently gender won&#8217;t be known for a few weeks) was a spine-tingling moment and in a week when human mothers have been in the news for cruelty to their children beyond belief, the tigress showed how it should be done. \u00a0And although I had a short labour &#8211; three hours only &#8211; I still envied her her six minute birth!<\/p>\n<p>I had an audition this afternoon for an online supermarket commercial and afterwards treated myself to afternoon tea in Selfridges. Because I&#8217;m worth it! \u00a0But unfortunately, I have to give Selfridges my Retailer&#8217;s Raspberry. \u00a0I ordered afternoon tea but as I don&#8217;t like tea asked to have decaf coffee instead. The waitress said &#8216;Certainly, madam&#8217;. But when it arrived it was one cup, that wasn&#8217;t even full. I queried why it wasn&#8217;t a pot of coffee as everyone else seemed to have a pot of tea and was told that coffee was an extra and that&#8217;s why you.only get a cup.<\/p>\n<p>Mean or what???<\/p>\n<p>And then I had to ask for a clean knife to cut my scone as I didn&#8217;t want to use the same one that I had cut my salmon roll with. \u00a0Not what I&#8217;d expected of such a store so RASPBERRY to them!<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s been other exciting week as far as the Play goes. \u00a0Nick has now set up Melabeauproductions Productions page on Facebook so please all visit it and like it. We&#8217;re going to be posting the progress of the production as it happens! \u00a0Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chinese astrology I was born in the Year of the Tiger, which might explain why I love them so. \u00a0One of the most amazing moments I experienced while leading singles&#8217; holidays was seeing a tiger walking through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/10\/tiger-tiger\/\">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":[241,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-melabeau","tag-retailers-raspberry","tag-selfridges","tag-tiger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}