{"id":19452,"date":"2013-04-29T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2013-04-29T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:39:37","slug":"day-119-a-bit-of-an-odd-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/29\/day-119-a-bit-of-an-odd-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 119: A Bit Of An Odd Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another strange day. I\u00a0almost\u00a0expected it in a way. This week is looking pretty unusual in itself, for many reasons. I&#8217;m only in school today and tomorrow, have a course on Wednesday and school is closed on Thursday and Friday &#8211; Thursday for <del>polling<\/del> no reason now that polling has been cancelled, and Friday has been taken for report writing.<\/p>\n<p>Back to today, the children have been in an odd mood today, just irritating each other and causing problems. And not the usual suspects either. Still, a reasonable day. This afternoon was full of goodness &#8211; a great discussion about the history of space flight. Many of them were amazed and surprised at the use of animals in such a way, clearly Albert II and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Laika\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Laika<\/a> have left a mark on history that still strikes a chord today.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Laika.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Deutsch: Laika, Rasse, Kopf Ein Rettungshund a...\" alt=\"Deutsch: Laika, Rasse, Kopf Ein Rettungshund a...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Laika.jpg?resize=300%2C221\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deutsch: Laika, Rasse, Kopf Ein Rettungshund aus den Niederlanden, aufgenommen bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2004 in Wittstock (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After work, I tried to catch up with weekend jobs that I hadn&#8217;t completed, and pretty much got there.<\/p>\n<p>Not a really interesting day overall, but I&#8217;ll finish with this video I made of Kit playing with some string.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDlAEI7P2dY?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another strange day. I\u00a0almost\u00a0expected it in a way. This week is looking pretty unusual in itself, for many reasons. I&#8217;m only in school today and tomorrow, have a course on Wednesday and school is closed on Thursday and Friday &#8211; Thursday for polling no reason now that polling has been cancelled, and Friday has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,43],"tags":[1425,1693,1719,2259,2260,2812,2815,2949,3251,3282],"class_list":["post-19452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-general","category-kit-the-cat","tag-history","tag-kit","tag-laika","tag-our-cat","tag-our-cat-kit","tag-soviet-space-dogs","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-wikipedia","tag-wittstock","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-53K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}