{"id":3094,"date":"2012-06-03T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2012-06-03T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T18:00:08","slug":"wet-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Wet jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Queen&#8217;s diamond jubilee celebrations, the British did something that hasn&#8217;t been done in 350 years: a 1000-boat pageant on the river Thames.<\/p>\n<p>Being the loyalist royalist, I was watching (parts of) it on television. As I did so, I couldn&#8217;t help noticing just how soaking wet the choir was on top of the boat carrying the London Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120603_125631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3095\" title=\"capture_20120603_125631\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120603_125631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120603_125631.jpg 626w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capture_20120603_125631-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their spirit was undaunted, though, and they sang beautifully and professionally. I hope none of them caught pneumonia.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3094' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Queen&#8217;s diamond jubilee celebrations, the British did something that hasn&#8217;t been done in 350 years: a 1000-boat pageant on the river Thames. Being the loyalist royalist, I was watching (parts of) it on television. As I did so, I couldn&#8217;t help noticing just how soaking wet the choir was on top <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3094' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-society","category-40-id","category-25-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}