{"id":164,"date":"2008-08-19T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/team-gb-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:48:33","slug":"team-gb-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/team-gb-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Team GB &#038; Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried to take a bit of time off over the past few days, as I have been making that many badges, my arm hurts a little. So I have done a lot of reading and finished a great book that my friend Paula bought for me last Christmas and hadn&#8217;t got round to reading it.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nValley of the Dolls<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"valley.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/valley.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/valley.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"valley.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great read &amp; I highly recommend it. It&#8217;s a cult classic. I am looking for what to read next. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>I have also been cheering for team GB at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and we are doing so well. Loving the Athletics and the Equestrian sports, oh &amp; the swimming was great too. In fact, it&#8217;s all brilliant. <strong>COME ON, TEAM GB<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"teamgb_beijing2008_360jpg1.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/teamgb_beijing2008_360jpg1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/teamgb_beijing2008_360jpg1.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"teamgb_beijing2008_360jpg1.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\"><br \/>\nLots of new badges have been added to the site this week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried to take a bit of time off over the past few days, as I have been making that many badges, my arm hurts a little. So I have done a lot of reading and finished a great book that my friend Paula bought for me last Christmas and hadn&#8217;t got round to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/team-gb-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team GB &#038; Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}