{"id":178,"date":"2005-01-03T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-01-03T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T22:35:12","slug":"felled-in-the-final-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Felled in the final frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I return to work tomorrow, along with the majority of the workforce I imagine, so today was my final last stand of idleness. Or so I had planned. I had planned to have a nice peaceful lie in. Three early morning phone-calls put paid to that idea. The rest of the day was spent going through the gifts I had received over the Christmas period. Clothes were washed in order to remove any residue left over from their manufacture, CDs were ripped into mp3 format for convenience and Sims 2 was installed.<br \/>\nAfter a brief play with Sims 2, two hours had passed! I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised as I found that the original Sims game miraculously bent time in such a way that time would disappear without one realising. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t play this game too often?<br \/>\nAnyway, went bowling with the usual suspects in the evening, pretty much in second position up until the final frame, when a few people nosed ahead leaving me somewhere in the middle of the table. Ah well, it&#8217;s the taking part that counts&#8230;.hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I return to work tomorrow, along with the majority of the workforce I imagine, so today was my final last stand of idleness. Or so I had planned. I had planned to have a nice peaceful lie in. Three early morning phone-calls put paid to that idea. The rest of the day was spent going&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=178\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}