{"id":1561,"date":"2001-10-18T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2001-10-18T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2001-10-18T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2001-10-18T10:57:33","slug":"hang-on-what-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/10\/18\/hang-on-what-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang on &#8211; what in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hang on &#8211; what in the world is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1589000\/1589116.stm\" title=\"BBC: talking about using FriendsReunited\">shameful<\/a>&#8221; about not leaving the Sussex town (or city) where you grew up? From what I have seen, London is not all bright lights, trendy bars and happy people &#8211; it certainly is not the be-all and end-all. There is something to be said for living in the area where you grew up &#8211; in my case, many of my old friends are still around, I&#8217;ve made many new friends and I&#8217;ve had some great experiences. You don&#8217;t have to move away to experience life. If you do, your experiences might be different, but I am not convinced that they are necessarily better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang on &#8211; what in the world is &#8220;shameful&#8221; about not leaving the Sussex town (or city) where you grew up? From what I have seen, London is not all bright lights, trendy bars and happy people &#8211; it certainly is not the be-all and end-all. There is something to be said for living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}