{"id":506,"date":"2006-07-02T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/07\/deja-vu-again\/"},"modified":"2006-07-02T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T16:07:00","slug":"deja-vu-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/07\/deja-vu-again\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only ever get d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu during significant periods of my life, and I&#8217;ve had two moments of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu in the last three days. The first was in the Royal Free Hospital, sitting with two extremely friendly and efficient medics, one from South Africa, one from Australia, shortly before I had a camera stuck down my throat to video my vocal chords.<\/p>\n<p>The second was just now&#8230; in my own home! I was re-potting plants, sorting out my balcony garden in the hot July sun. I am writing this within five minutes of the experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/rooneyred203.jpg\" align=right \/>I am having to re-organise my work because of the voice-box problems; it&#8217;s an odd one &#8211; I feel extraordinarily pleased. It could have been so much worse. I&#8217;ve been sent off, but I will play again.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu watching my national team crash painfully out of the World Cup last night. Everybody knows that we weren&#8217;t that well organised, weren&#8217;t playing to our potential, and frankly, we went as far as we could. Some would say it&#8217;s a miracle we got as far as we did.<\/p>\n<p>In a word it was agony. Yes, the referee was biased. Yes, the penalties were unbearable. But England seemed a much more peaceful nation, this north London morning, now we&#8217;re out of the World Cup &#8211; the St George&#8217;s cross flags are still everywhere, but they are all prettier, with less expectation attached. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/deja_vu_again.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the France-Brazil game so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only ever get d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu during significant periods of my life, and I&#8217;ve had two moments of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu in the last three days. The first was in the Royal Free Hospital, sitting with two extremely friendly and efficient medics, one from South Africa, one from Australia, shortly before I had a camera stuck [&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-506","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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}