{"id":91154,"date":"2025-04-01T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91154"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:42:12","slug":"qotd-jeeves-proves-his-talent-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/01\/qotd-jeeves-proves-his-talent-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Jeeves proves his talent for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>[Bertie Wooster, who has a terrible hangover, encounters a prospective new valet \u2013 Jeeves.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you would drink this, sir,&#8221; he said, with a kind of bedside manner, rather like the royal doctor shooting the bracer into a sick prince. &#8220;It&#8217;s a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcestershire sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would have clutched at anything that looked like a lifeline that morning. I swallowed the stuff. For a moment I felt as if someone had touched off a bomb inside the old bean and was strolling down my throat with a lighted torch, and then everything seemed suddenly to get all right. The sun shone in through the treetops and, generally speaking, hope dawned once more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re engaged!&#8221; I said, as soon as I could say anything.<\/p>\n<p>P.G. Wodehouse <em>Carry on, Jeeves<\/em> (1925).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bertie Wooster, who has a terrible hangover, encounters a prospective new valet \u2013 Jeeves.] &#8220;If you would drink this, sir,&#8221; he said, with a kind of bedside manner, rather like the royal doctor shooting the bracer into a sick prince. &#8220;It&#8217;s a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcestershire sauce that gives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[57,41],"tags":[104,570,1197,1402],"class_list":["post-91154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-booze","tag-england","tag-interwarperiod","tag-pgwodehouse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nIe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94917,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91154\/revisions\/94917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}