{"id":243,"date":"2008-12-23T02:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/christmas-and-that\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T02:50:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:50:53","slug":"christmas-and-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/christmas-and-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/sets\/72057594094902604\/\">Humph<\/a> used to really relax herself whenever we played <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_(band)\">Air<\/a>. It would appear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/2908171409\/\">&#8220;wor Leo&#8221;<\/a> reacts in the same way. I wish he and Humph could have met &#8211; they would have loved each other.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a week or so of Christmassyness and it&#8217;s feeling good! And that doesn&#8217;t even include the excitement we both feel about going back to London in <i>two days time!<\/i> How did that happen ?<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday was our staff &#8220;do&#8221; [Americans: &#8220;do&#8221; means a party sort of thing] and it was most amusing. We went to a huge bowling place at 11am, that had a working bar. Nuff said. A couple of hours later we went to a bonkers Italian Family Theme Restaurant and got arseholed whilst talking bollocks and eating some vaguely Italian food. That&#8217;s a good day, especially when the company picked up the tab. So much better than my experience last year when I worked for Shiti. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re both really excited about coming back to London, but Michele may be even more excited than I: she hasn&#8217;t been back for over a year. <\/p>\n<p>Arses &#8211; there were loads of  things of axis-shifting proportions that I wanted to rant about. Be thankful for my crap memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little Humph used to really relax herself whenever we played Air. It would appear that &#8220;wor Leo&#8221; reacts in the same way. I wish he and Humph could have met &#8211; they would have loved each other. We&#8217;ve had a week or so of Christmassyness and it&#8217;s feeling good! And that doesn&#8217;t even include [&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-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}