{"id":847,"date":"2003-08-06T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-day-the-earth-caught-fire\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T08:30:12","slug":"the-day-the-earth-caught-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-day-the-earth-caught-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The day the earth caught fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s seriously, no-messingly, indisputably <\/p>\n<h1>HOT<\/h1>\n<p>. And muggy. So muggy. It&#8217;s like trying to breathe jelly. People all over europe are keeling over with heatstroke, but England continues to firmly shun any suggestion that we should all be using air-conditioners, with the stiff-upper-lipped resoluteness that will probably result in my death later today.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was Brodie&#8217;s brithday. The Fish Brothers played the Rosemary branch and many many people turned up and drank too much&#8230;.including the man himself, who became very tired and emotional and it took three of us to get him upstairs and into bed. Good gig tho. One of Brodie&#8217;s friends who lives in Ireland was looking at the Fish Brothers&#8217; website and noticed the gig in honour of his birthday, so came all the way over! He ended up staying round at ours as the host had an early bath. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakehole.org.uk\/\" target=\"_new\">Andy<\/a>, I now have a copy of the radio show from the other night. Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/rm\/bigears.ram\" target=\"_new\">listen<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t actually appear until about 28 minutes in to it, but the non-me bits are much better listening anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s seriously, no-messingly, indisputably HOT . And muggy. So muggy. It&#8217;s like trying to breathe jelly. People all over europe are keeling over with heatstroke, but England continues to firmly shun any suggestion that we should all be using air-conditioners, with the stiff-upper-lipped resoluteness that will probably result in my death later today. Last night [&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-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}