{"id":9608,"date":"2022-10-07T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2022-10-07T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:58:21","slug":"how-peculiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/how-peculiar\/","title":{"rendered":"How peculiar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>For my birthday last week my wife and daughter treated me to a surprise. And I really was surprised because it was an English-style afternoon tea in the centre of Madrid! It was fantastic, with scones and cream and jam, cucumber sandwiches and little slices of cake, all presented on a three-layer plate tower with silver teapots, milk jugs and all the paraphenalia. As I was enjoying it I thought &#8216;what a peculiar thing this is!&#8217; with its strange rituals and insistence on everything being &#8216;just so&#8217;. This led me to thinking about other British idiosyncracies and to putting together <strong>a quick quiz<\/strong> for you to see how much you know about British oddities. <strong>Click on the tempting-looking tea below to have a go!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Ed Taylor (Head of Studies at King&#8217;s Training)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/quizzes\/british-peculiarities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9610 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afternoon-tea.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday last week my wife and daughter treated me to a surprise. And I really was surprised because it was an English-style afternoon&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}