{"id":576,"date":"2002-07-15T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/07\/15\/countdown-to-freedom\/"},"modified":"2002-07-15T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-15T10:53:00","slug":"countdown-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/07\/15\/countdown-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\"><html><head><br \/>\n<\/head><body><br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s nearly time for holidays.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Solar mumblings and stellar events--><br \/>\nIn<br \/>\nthe coming couple of months I have to look forward to two weeks in Cornwall,<br \/>\n3 days in a field at the Cropredy Festival plus August Bank Holiday.. so<br \/>\nthat makes almost three weeks off.. ok, 3 working weeks minus 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>Over<br \/>\nthe weekend I managed to get the final bits needed to upgrade my Dad&#8217;s PC<br \/>\nwhen I go down to Cornwall, so that&#8217;s good. OK, well, the only things being<br \/>\ntransfered from the previous machine which I&#8217;m upgrading from are the hard<br \/>\ndisk, floppy disk, keyboard, mouse and monitor, but it&#8217;s an upgrade really,<br \/>\nhonest! \ud83d\ude42 After all, I&#8217;m only replacing the case, memory, processor, video<br \/>\ncards and CD-ROM drive.. oh and adding an AT-keyboard to PS\/2 keyboard adaptor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeen a really nice, sunny weekend. I didn&#8217;t do a great deal on Saturday other<br \/>\nthan the shopping. Yesterday I decided that spraying the shrubs in my garden<br \/>\nwith fungicide or cutting the grass wasn&#8217;t something to do in the balzing<br \/>\nsunshine, so I wandered down to Wantage and managed to find the way to the<br \/>\niron age fort on the hill behind it, next to the Ridgeway. Of course, I took<br \/>\nmy camera and spent a happy hour or so wandering through the meadow&#8217;s long<br \/>\ngrass and flowers smelling the heady aroma of the wild flowers. It was very<br \/>\npleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s supposed to be warm, up to 28C (84F) so I&#8217;ve come<br \/>\nto work wearing only a t-shirt, shorts and sandals. I should keep reasonably<br \/>\ncool in that garb despite the office window opening onto a baking, stone<br \/>\nclad square which gets no air.<\/p>\n<p>On another front, the person who ran<br \/>\ninto the back of me on his bike the other week is trying to wangle out and<br \/>\nacusing me of charging me for things which weren&#8217;t broken in the accident.<br \/>\nHe says he&#8217;s taking legal advice on his liability. Hmm.. this can do nothing<br \/>\nbut get worse now that lawyers are involved. He also acused me of causing<br \/>\nthe accident by wrecklessly stopping in front of him!<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\"> Well, it&#8217;s nearly time for holidays.<\/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-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-9i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}