{"id":618,"date":"2001-11-21T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-21T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/21\/hot_sauna_actio\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:38:43","slug":"hot_sauna_actio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/21\/hot_sauna_actio\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Sauna Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The changing room area\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/uk2001\/sauna.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" \/><strong>Once I get back,<\/strong> remind me to tell you more about the Victorian-era Turkish bath <a href=\"http:\/\/dollsoup.blogspot.com\">Paul<\/a> took me to today. It was in Carlisle, a little village just south of Scotland. Presumably some Americans have been to the area to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hadrians-wall.org\/\">Hadrian\u2019s Wall<\/a> and such, but we&#8217;re pretty sure I\u2019m the first one to make it into the bathhouse. Nothing unseemly, just a little bit of relaxing luxury that the local farmers (and the occasional working-class hottie of dubious sexual orientation) enjoy for a mere trifle. A fascinating new experience in social dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Later, we returned to Lancaster and enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner. Tony prepared the roast potatoes and vegetarian turkey, Paul brought out his homemade <a title=\"We totally need to establish this tradition in the States\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutelycrackers.com\/historynew.html\">Christmas crackers<\/a>, and we wrapped it all up with some Christmas pudding and some <a title=\"Abigail's Party\" href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0075622\">more<\/a> <a title=\"I\u2019m Alan Partridge\" href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0129690\">TV<\/a> <a title=\"The Royle Family\" href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0129711\">masterpieces<\/a> of <i>schadenfreude<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I get back, remind me to tell you more about the Victorian-era Turkish bath Paul took me to today. It was in Carlisle, a little village just south of Scotland. Presumably some Americans have been to the area to see Hadrian\u2019s Wall and such, but we&#8217;re pretty sure I\u2019m the first one to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/21\/hot_sauna_actio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hot Sauna Action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71423,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/71423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}