{"id":894,"date":"2013-12-08T16:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=894"},"modified":"2014-03-11T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:25:13","slug":"yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-893\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-893\" alt=\"TV\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TV-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TV-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TV-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TV.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don\u2019t think that my grandfather, who died in 1948, ever saw TV.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when I thought that this was something of a deprivation.\u00a0 I think that he would have enjoyed watching sport, particularly equestrian sport.\u00a0 And, being a farmer, he probably would have found some of the farming and countryside programmes pretty informative.<\/p>\n<p>As a territorial cavalryman, my grandfather was one of the first to see action during the First World War.\u00a0 And he was one of the last to come home again.\u00a0 So he may have found some of the many programmes based on that great conflict pretty enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be thinking about my grandfather when I was watching cricket on TV recently.\u00a0 During a break between overs, a station promo exhorted us not to miss \u2018all new World\u2019s Scariest Weather\u2019.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure that my grandfather could have passed on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think that my grandfather, who died in 1948, ever saw TV. There was a time when I thought that this was something of a deprivation.\u00a0 I think that he would have enjoyed watching sport, particularly equestrian sport.\u00a0 And, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=894\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}