{"id":66,"date":"2006-08-14T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-08-14T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T08:31:00","slug":"right-now-we-dont-have-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Right now, we don&#8217;t have a choice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a 24 year old Czech medical student staying with you for six weeks and he has little interest in the cultural delights of London, there&#8217;s not a lot of choice. So I know that I said, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2006\/08\/were_running_out_of_time_jack.html\">an earlier posting<\/a>, that &#8211; having watched series 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/24\/\">&#8220;24&#8221;<\/a> on DVD &#8211; I was going to take a rest from the programme.<br \/>\nBut that was before I knew that my wife had secretly purchased the DVD set of series 4 and my Czech mate was in on the plot.<br \/>\nSo we&#8217;ve been ploughing through this series over this wet and cold weekend. We watched four episodes on Friday, another four on Saturday, and an amazing six on Sunday &#8211; to finish the series. Jack Bauer has now &#8216;gone dark&#8217; &#8211; and I feel like doing the same &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a 24 year old Czech medical student staying with you for six weeks and he has little interest in the cultural delights of London, there&#8217;s not a lot of choice. So I know that I said, in an earlier posting, that &#8211; having watched series 3 of &#8220;24&#8221; on DVD &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}