{"id":13235,"date":"2013-12-25T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2013-12-25T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T20:59:25","slug":"my-best-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13235","title":{"rendered":"My best Christmas present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I have fancied having a remote controlled helicopter but thought that, at the grand old age of 65, this was too much of a boyish wish. Then, a few weeks ago, I was in a gadget shop and saw this helicopter priced at \u00a330 but reduced to \u00a320. I decide that this was God&#8217;s way of telling me that I should treat myself.<\/p>\n<p>So I bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red5.co.uk\/u4-gyro-rc-helicopter-1.aspx\">U4 Gyro RC Helicopter<\/a> but did not open it. I thought that I would enjoy a few weeks anticipation of the pleasure, so that I would regard it as a Christmas present to myself. As part of the game, my wife wrapped it up and put it under the Christmas tree. Today I have been piloting the little craft and it is SUCH fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13239\" alt=\"copter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/copter-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/copter-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/copter.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I have fancied having a remote controlled helicopter but thought that, at the grand old age of 65, this was too much of a boyish wish. Then, a few weeks ago, I was in a gadget shop and saw this helicopter priced at \u00a330 but reduced to \u00a320. I decide that this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13243,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}