{"id":129,"date":"2004-01-31T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/01\/31\/drinking-with-the-dowses\/"},"modified":"2004-01-31T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T23:45:00","slug":"drinking-with-the-dowses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/01\/31\/drinking-with-the-dowses\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking with the Dowses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a>, Laura VG and I were in the Angel again (we&#8217;re now regulars apparently) and we were drinking with Mr and Mrs Dowse (teachers) who have now been retired for 5 years. Scary stuff. Anyway, had some interesting conversations and Mr Dowse bought us all a drink. &#8220;It&#8217;s ok, I&#8217;ve paid off my mortgage&#8221; he said when Wez said he didn&#8217;t want one \ud83d\ude1b It&#8217;s nice that they remembered my name from me being in school musicals.<\/p>\n<p>Drank a little more than was planned and had a lovely headache this morning. Managed to retrieve most of the deleted pictures from my hard disk which is good.<\/p>\n<p>Had a bit of a naff day today, not sure why. Just feeling apathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I forgot to mention, on Thursday in the Angel Wez was flipping beer mats and managed to flip a stack of 18 before he had to give in. Very impressive I must say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night lauperr, djkoa, Laura VG and I were in the Angel again (we&#8217;re now regulars apparently) and we were drinking with Mr and Mrs Dowse (teachers) who have now been retired for 5 years. Scary stuff. Anyway, had some interesting conversations and Mr Dowse bought us all a drink. &#8220;It&#8217;s ok, I&#8217;ve paid off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/01\/31\/drinking-with-the-dowses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drinking with the Dowses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}