{"id":68,"date":"2006-05-09T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:40:03","slug":"groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/68","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions in Britain today must have had their own Groundhog Day shock when, at twenty to seven, the lady on Radio 4 read the summary of today&#8217;s papers. Those who were awake, like me, were even more awake by the time she had finished without a faltering word. They sounded very familiar; nay! identical to yesterday; even the same cartoons were described dead-pan. And indeed they were identical as John Humph apologised a few minutes later. But that raises a question&mdash;were they recorded or read from a script? I&#8217;m sure I could watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/today\/\">web-cam<\/a> and find out, but I don&#8217;t think I want to know. I always thought that, though they may be not ad-libed, that she at least wrote them herself. This episode will have to join the blunder clips.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I was lucky that I was wide awake today having heard the great news that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/4752997.stm\">Tasmanian miners<\/a> were safe and up to grass. Now we could get back to teaching them how to pronounce Launceston properly, but most of the English don&#8217;t know either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions in Britain today must have had their own Groundhog Day shock when, at twenty to seven, the lady on Radio 4 read the summary of today&#8217;s papers. Those who were awake, like me, were even more awake by the time she had finished without a faltering word. They sounded very familiar; nay! identical to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}