{"id":1883,"date":"2012-08-15T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2012-08-15T07:56:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T06:56:49","slug":"what-have-the-romans-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/what-have-the-romans-done\/","title":{"rendered":"What have the Romans done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics are over (with the Paralympics to come \u2013 which I am very excited to be going to see in the main stadium).<\/p>\n<p>There were great performances from many countries.\u00a0 Even before &#8216;Always look on the bright side&#8217; in the closing ceremony, we couldn&#8217;t help recalling the opening ceremony and how it triggered memories of\u00a0The Monty Python sketch from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso \" rel=\"nofollow\"> Life of Brian. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What have the Brits ever done for us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Whilst it ignored imperialism, the ceremony claimed:<\/p>\n<p>The industrial revolution<\/p>\n<p>The welfare state<\/p>\n<p>The World wide web (much to the surprise of the Americans)<\/p>\n<p>Confident humour<\/p>\n<p>Leading music<\/p>\n<p>As Gary Lineker summed it up: \u201cBarmy, bonkers, British, Bold \u2013 Bravo Mr Boyle\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keeping all this in mind for what might be a difficult next 12 months, could be useful \u2013 celebrating what is good as a platform for hard times ahead for many, after the summer and the forthcoming buzz of the Paralympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics are over (with the Paralympics to come \u2013 which I am very excited to be going to see in the main stadium). There were great performances from many countries.\u00a0 Even before &#8216;Always look on the bright side&#8217; in the closing ceremony, we couldn&#8217;t help recalling the opening ceremony and how it triggered memories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[96,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}