{"id":1226,"date":"2006-12-28T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/28\/christmas-hols-part-9\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T23:29:00","slug":"christmas-hols-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/28\/christmas-hols-part-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas hols part 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s the ninth installment already&#8230; anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the day I did my regular trip to Carleen to visit Meriel and Chris. As usual it was a mixture of talking, tea and tinkering with old PC bits trying to resurect them. Good clean fun was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>This evening there wasn&#8217;t much on the telly so watched &#8220;The Best of Top Gear&#8221; followed by the rather cheaply made retrospective on BBC saturday morning TV programmes, &#8220;It All Started With Swap Shop.&#8221; Some presenters have weathered better than others I must say. I must say that some of the clips made me think, &#8220;surely it&#8217;s not *THAT* long ago I watched that?!&#8221; This was especially true of the clips from &#8220;Going Live!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s the end of another day. Only four more days here and six more until I&#8217;m back to work. Blurgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s the ninth installment already&#8230; anyway. Today was the day I did my regular trip to Carleen to visit Meriel and Chris. As usual it was a mixture of talking, tea and tinkering with old PC bits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/28\/christmas-hols-part-9\/\">Continue reading <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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-jM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}