{"id":87614261,"date":"2008-09-21T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614261"},"modified":"2008-09-21T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:33:43","slug":"nice-idea-didja-maybe-try-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614261","title":{"rendered":"Nice idea, didja maybe try it first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got a call from the Green party, who was phoning from the train station to let me know about the whistle-stop tour they were beginning today. Complete with big cavernous echoes, like a real train station.<br \/>\nComplete with incomprehensible other echoes that confuse the message, like a real train station would.<br \/>\nHave you ever seen a press conference held inside a train station, do you have any idea why that might be?<br \/>\nThaaaat&#8217;s right, it took me three listenings to figure out who was talking, and what they were saying.<br \/>\nCute idea though. Good luck with that.<br \/>\nMaybe next time try it on someone who hasn&#8217;t read the script yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got a call from the Green party, who was phoning from the train station to let me know about the whistle-stop tour they were beginning today. Complete with big cavernous echoes, like a real train station. Complete with incomprehensible other echoes that confuse the message, like a real train station would. Have you ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}