{"id":243,"date":"2006-12-11T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-12-11T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:55:35","slug":"royal-mail-tries-to-be-cool-and-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail tries to be cool &#8211; and fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail has just issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.royalmailgroup.com\/news\/article.asp?id=1852&#038;brand=royal_mail\">a media release<\/a> about the correct packing of parcels for the Christmas post &#8211; which is sensible enough. It builds the release around the posting of a video on YouTube made by three Royal Mail staff members. What could be cooler than the company that runs our snail mail system using the Net?<br \/>\nThe trouble is that the release only gives the URL of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube homepage<\/a> and not that of the video. It is a basic law that, if you mention something on the Net, you give the full URL &#8211; but those super cool guys in the Press Office at Royal Mail have probably never visited YouTube in their life.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t find the video. Can you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail has just issued a media release about the correct packing of parcels for the Christmas post &#8211; which is sensible enough. It builds the release around the posting of a video on YouTube made by three Royal Mail staff members. What could be cooler than the company that runs our snail mail system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}