{"id":68,"date":"2011-07-20T00:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-blinkin-raf-always-steals-the-fun\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:19:49","slug":"the-blinkin-raf-always-steals-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-blinkin-raf-always-steals-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"The blinkin&#8217; RAF always steals the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another list, sorry. Unless it&#8217;s blogged at the time, things just build up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a title=\"The Lion Has Wings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0031575\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lion Has Wings<\/a><br \/>\nwhich is a 1939 propaganda film from Alexander Korder. It&#8217;s worth watching just for the opening montage of Britishness, and how wonderful Britain was at the time. There were pictures of churches, cricket matches, sheep grazing, and vicars riding bicycles; a lot like one of John Major&#8217;s utterly bizarre speeches from his unlikely period in high office. However, when the voice-over described all of the wonderful things about Britain in 1939, it was essentially a list of Socialist ideals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safe and clean public housing and schools<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare reform<\/li>\n<li>Allowing the average person to become fitter and healthier<\/li>\n<li>Creating safer workplaces<\/li>\n<li>Paid holidays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every one of these things was a direct result of the Labour Movement.\n<\/li>\n<li>Happy 60th Birthday to Ralph!<\/li>\n<li>\nWe borrowed some children to help legitimise our sojourn to see<br \/>\n<a title=\"Rio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1436562\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rio<\/a><br \/>\nin 3D. It was brilliant in case you were wondering.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nYou know you&#8217;re in the 21st century when it&#8217;s more difficult to string up a mirror than it is to set-up<br \/>\n<a title=\"Parrot Cam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/ollieandpepper\" target=\"_blank\">live web stream<\/a><br \/>\nof your parrots, so you can watch them from the other room.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another list, sorry. Unless it&#8217;s blogged at the time, things just build up. The Lion Has Wings which is a 1939 propaganda film from Alexander Korder. It&#8217;s worth watching just for the opening montage of Britishness, and how wonderful Britain was at the time. There were pictures of churches, cricket matches, sheep grazing, and vicars [&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-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}