{"id":388,"date":"2010-08-01T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-08-01T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:59:11","slug":"favourite-stuart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Stuart #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading <strong>Cold Granite<\/strong> yesterday. An excellent read. I can     relate to the portrayal of winter time in Aberdeen. I&#8217;ve only been     in the city on three occasions &#8211; all in the autumn &#8211; and it was cold     and drizzled rain on the two latter ones. The first time, I     only went from the bus station to the nearby bus stop to make my way     out to the airport. It was sunny on that October day but mighty     cold. Stuart didn&#8217;t exaggerate the icy wind coming in off the North     Sea and chilling you to the bone. Add some moisture and you become a     human icicle.<\/p>\n<p>On our last trip into Aberdeen by train from where we were staying, we took at wrong turning when we got to Market St and I&#8217;m 99 44\/100% certain we were in the red-light district mentioned in Stuart&#8217;s novel. Glad it was daytime. It was pretty scary not to mention cold. The sun actually shone for a wee bit but it was only a flash in the pan. In no time, it clouded over and drizzled. Dreich day for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a glutton for punishment but I want to be in Aberdeen in the     winter. I want to be there for the Christmas lights switch-on and     its related festivities, the Christmas tree lighting at the     Castlegate, and the big Hogmanay party.<\/p>\n<p>And on that note, <strong>Dying Light<\/strong> is next on my must read list of Stuart&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading Cold Granite yesterday. An excellent read. 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The first time, I only went from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favourite Stuart #2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Favourite Stuart #2 - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=388\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Favourite Stuart #2 - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I finished reading Cold Granite yesterday. 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