{"id":9604,"date":"2012-10-05T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:00:32","slug":"two-things-happened-half-a-century-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9604","title":{"rendered":"Two things happened half a century ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) The Beatles released their first single &#8220;Love Me Do&#8221; and four lads from Liverpool changed the world &#8211; see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-19842270\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) As a 14 year old, i spent a day at school in Manchester where I did badly in a Physics test, did a bit better in \u00a0a Latin test, and started on nitric acid in my Chemistry class (I know this because I&#8217;ve kept a daily diary for just over 50 years).<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles &#8211; together with James Bond who arrived on screens the same year &#8211; coloured my adolescence. \u00a0The Beatles music is still popular, the Bond movies are still being made, and I&#8217;m still going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) The Beatles released their first single &#8220;Love Me Do&#8221; and four lads from Liverpool changed the world &#8211; see more here. 2) As a 14 year old, i spent a day at school in Manchester where I did badly in a Physics test, did a bit better in \u00a0a Latin test, and started on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9607,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}