{"id":229,"date":"2009-02-10T02:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/din-dins\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T02:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:58:43","slug":"din-dins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/din-dins\/","title":{"rendered":"Din dins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we hosted our first proper middle-class dinner party! That&#8217;s &#8220;middle-class&#8221; in the English sense rather than the American sense; over here no-one identifies as working class, and so everyone is either middle-class or &#8220;upper-class&#8221;&#8230;again, very different to the English idea of upper-class.<br \/>\nOther than that, everything else was pretty much what you&#8217;d expect in Islington, only we enjoyed it immensely. We&#8217;ve been very lucky in meeting so many cool people since we arrived.<br \/>\nThe news over here remains as blinkered as ever; Obama Vs Republicans, or J.M.Keynes Vs The Free Market as it will be recorded in history. No mention of the rest of the world, such as the massive bush-fires in Australia. Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20071112\/hayes\">Explained: right-wing dads forwarding their shit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The UK rushing <a href=\"http:\/\/p10.hostingprod.com\/@spyblog.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/mass-photography-protest---11-am-monday-16th-february-2009-metropolitan-police-h.html\">closer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/p10.hostingprod.com\/@spyblog.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/sunday-telegraph---british-jobs-for-british-spies-mi5-overwhelmed-or-lobbying-fo.html\">closer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/p10.hostingprod.com\/@spyblog.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/surveillance-citizens-and-the-state---hol-constitution-committee-report.html\">closer<\/a> to the inevitable Police state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we hosted our first proper middle-class dinner party! That&#8217;s &#8220;middle-class&#8221; in the English sense rather than the American sense; over here no-one identifies as working class, and so everyone is either middle-class or &#8220;upper-class&#8221;&#8230;again, very different to the English idea of upper-class. Other than that, everything else was pretty much what you&#8217;d expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}