{"id":303,"date":"2006-03-15T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:25:00","slug":"liveblogging-the-bbc-radio-coverage-of-the-melbourne-commonwealth-games-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/liveblogging-the-bbc-radio-coverage-of-the-melbourne-commonwealth-games-opening-ceremony.html","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging the BBC radio coverage of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Melbourne is so up for this.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s very famous, I haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/li>\n<li>This is the precursor to what is going to happen next.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a tremdous opportunity to soak up the experience.<\/li>\n<li>They are what they are.<\/li>\n<li>Melburnians will come to watch any event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, the broadcast suddenly stopped after half an hour and they switched to a phone-in about hosepipe bans.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fun fact: <\/span>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/facts\/nat_anthem.html\">Australian national anthem<\/a> was written by a Scotsman, who was paid 100 pounds by the government.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> I didn&#8217;t know that.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UPDATE:<\/span> Intersecting Lines gives <a href=\"http:\/\/ilines.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/2006-commonwealth-games-opening.html\">a first-hand account of the festivities<\/a> &#8211; more details, more accurate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne is so up for this. It&#8217;s very famous, I haven&#8217;t seen it. This is the precursor to what is going to happen next. It&#8217;s a tremdous opportunity to soak up the experience. They are what they are. Melburnians will come to watch any event. Then, the broadcast suddenly stopped after half an hour and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}