{"id":3180,"date":"2002-10-31T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2002-10-31T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2002-10-31T08:59:20","slug":"ok-im-feeling-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/10\/31\/ok-im-feeling-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I&#8217;m feeling a bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;m feeling a bit better this morning, mainly because I&#8217;m determined to be more relaxed and go with the flow a little. Because we all know what happens to stressed people.<br \/>\nYou know that there is always this debate in the media every year about Christmas getting earlier? Well, I can understand that from a marketing point of view, because if you want to buy gifts and Christmas things and send them to friends and family in Australia and New Zealand (and I have friends and family in both of those places. Not that I&#8217;m likely to send them anything, mind you.), well you are already nearly a month too late to send them by cheap surface mail. So shops that put their Christmas goods on display in September are certainly filling a need.<br \/>\nHowever, the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebase.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"a chain of hardware stores, for the benefit of non-UK readers\">Homebase<\/a> is packed full of tacky fibre optic Christmas trees and playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingslade.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"bless 'em\">Slade<\/a> seems a little premature. I also noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussamb.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sussex Ambulance Service\">ambulance<\/a> crews in Chichester have already decorated their mess room at the station with tinsel and garlands &#8211; have they nothing more constructive to do with their time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;m feeling a bit better this morning, mainly because I&#8217;m determined to be more relaxed and go with the flow a little. Because we all know what happens to stressed people. You know that there is always this debate in the media every year about Christmas getting earlier? Well, I can understand that from [&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-3180","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\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}