{"id":71,"date":"2007-08-17T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-08-03T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:02:41","slug":"some-things-you-just-dont-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Some things you just don&#8217;t expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strangest sights I&#8217;ve seen this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Wandering through Soho Square on my way up to Euston Station I came across a stand for Oxygen, a product of some sort from Nivea.\u00c2\u00a0 As I approached I could hear the distinct sound of drums and tamberines.\u00c2\u00a0 What a strange sound I thought to myself coming from something so contrived.\u00c2\u00a0 I could see one of the men manning it leaning over a counter staring out into space.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point I spotted the Hari-Krishna&#8217;s and realise the stand had been overrun.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 No wonder those manning the stand were trying to make themselve invisible.<\/p>\n<p>A marketeer&#8217;s worst nightmare.\u00c2\u00a0 Again typically at these occasions the batteries in my camera were flat as it would have made a brillant photo opportunity.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt I&#8217;ll ever see the same thing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strangest sights I&#8217;ve seen this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Wandering through Soho Square on my way up to Euston Station I came across a stand for Oxygen, a product of some sort from Nivea.\u00c2\u00a0 As I approached I could hear the distinct sound of drums and tamberines.\u00c2\u00a0 What a strange sound I thought to myself &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=71\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some things you just don&#8217;t expect<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,16],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-life","tag-random-things-that-happen","tag-street-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AfOo-19","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}