{"id":1058,"date":"2008-08-24T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2008-08-24T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:49:16","slug":"from-beijing-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"From Beijing to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic flag has now passed from Beijing which hosted this year&#8217;s Games to London which will be the host in 2012 and today there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/olympics\/london_2012\/7577999.stm\">a number of events<\/a> to mark the occasion. One was 4.45 pm fly past over Buckingham Palace by the Royal Air Force&#8217;s Red Arrows display team &#8211; always an exhilarating sight &#8211; and I just managed to catch a view of them as they wheeled north.<br \/>\nThe last Olympic Games in London were held in the year of my birth. When they return to London in 2012, I will be 64. I feel a Beatles song coming on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic flag has now passed from Beijing which hosted this year&#8217;s Games to London which will be the host in 2012 and today there have been a number of events to mark the occasion. One was 4.45 pm fly past over Buckingham Palace by the Royal Air Force&#8217;s Red Arrows display team &#8211; always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}