{"id":794,"date":"2003-12-22T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T10:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/on-the-approach\/"},"modified":"2003-12-22T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T10:12:46","slug":"on-the-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/on-the-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"On the approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still not christmas, still haven&#8217;t finished work. However, today is Nicola&#8217;s wedding day and so I&#8217;m off work anyway. The dread of the impending suit is upon me and eased only by the thought that the reception is in a really excellent Greek Taverna in New Eltham.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I met up with Brodie, wee John, Millwall Paul, Steve the Copper and a bloke called Bill to whom Steve referred as &#8220;Kaiser&#8221;. Even though much of the day involved watching football &#8211; something I&#8217;m <i>really<\/i> not into, it was an excellent afternoon. Firstly it was my first visit to the Forest Hill Wetherspoon&#8217;s. This place is incredible. It&#8217;s a pub converted from a massive victorian cinema. The adjective &#8220;massive&#8221; really doesn&#8217;t accurately convey the true massiveness of massivity of this place. You could comfortably land a jet there. Weirdly, not only is it <i>BIG<\/i> but it was packed -so it didn&#8217;t seem like it was huge and empty. Admittedly most of the customers were there because you can buy 6 pints for less than a tenner and eat a resonable meal for a fiver, but hey &#8211; it was a good atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Mod came round ours so I staggered home and we ordered Pizza. For some reason I was very weary by this time, and so Michele and I ended up going to bed at about half eight. Oh well &#8211; time to get in the bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not christmas, still haven&#8217;t finished work. However, today is Nicola&#8217;s wedding day and so I&#8217;m off work anyway. The dread of the impending suit is upon me and eased only by the thought that the reception is in a really excellent Greek Taverna in New Eltham. Yesterday I met up with Brodie, wee John, [&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-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}