{"id":264,"date":"2005-05-09T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/05\/gentlemen-women\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T06:47:00","slug":"gentlemen-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/05\/gentlemen-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen &amp; Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the past month, I am still slightly astonished that I propelled myself into politics with that amount of gusto. Gusto is a tasty sauce, a kind of wind-assisted pesto. All energy should eventually come from such renewable italian sauces. This sort of drivel has been knocking around my head for days as a result of letting go of the strictures of conformity, which after all was never my strong point.<\/p>\n<p>So in the spirit of unwinding, I stayed home Saturday and read a book, watched a DVD, ate chicken soup, drank some red wine, then yesterday went down to the canal and walked in the sun. I am still recovering from my headcold and the GGF is in the throes of the same virus, so we meandered rather than danced along, but still covered a couple of miles, enjoyed the locks and the boats and the ducklings. May mornings are still cold, rain showers come and go, but London in springtime is a beautiful place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/laycockeve.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/canalsky.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/canalwater.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/furlong-wisteria.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/morningglass.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the past month, I am still slightly astonished that I propelled myself into politics with that amount of gusto. Gusto is a tasty sauce, a kind of wind-assisted pesto. All energy should eventually come from such renewable italian sauces. This sort of drivel has been knocking around my head for days as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}