{"id":20819,"date":"2013-07-07T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=20819"},"modified":"2013-07-07T21:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:35:31","slug":"day-188-putting-the-sun-in-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/07\/day-188-putting-the-sun-in-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 188: Putting The &#8216;Sun&#8217; In Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long day today. The majority of the morning &#8211; because I&#8217;m lazy and didn&#8217;t get up &#8211; was taken up by playing at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kirkwood Hospice\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirkwood_Hospice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Kirkwood Hospice<\/a> with Grange Moor Band. Some photos below.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><\/center>The performances went down well but it was unbelievably hot.<\/p>\n<p>Once home, I watched the German Grand Prix delayed &#8211; and managed to avoid the result &#8211; which was good. <a title=\"German Grand Prix 2013: Race Result\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2013\/07\/german-grand-prix-2013-race-result\/\">The result is here<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a title=\"German Grand Prix 2013: Championship Standings\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2013\/07\/german-grand-prix-2013-championship-standings\/\">championship standings are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My version of the race finished just in time to see <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Andy Murray\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Murray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Andy Murray<\/a> become the first British man to win <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Championships, Wimbledon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Championships%2C_Wimbledon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Wimbledon<\/a> in 77 years. I don&#8217;t really care about tennis but I&#8217;m glad that we won&#8217;t have to hear the same old rubbish about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fred Perry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Perry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Fred Perry<\/a> any more.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fred_perry_statue_wimbledon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"The Fred Perry statue in the All-England Club,...\" alt=\"The Fred Perry statue in the All-England Club,...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/300px-Fred_perry_statue_wimbledon.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fred Perry statue in the All-England Club, Wimbledon. 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Once home, I watched the German Grand Prix delayed &#8211; and managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","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":[2,34,41,42,29],"tags":[224,242,631,1189,1324,1691,2196,2976,3265],"class_list":["post-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-2","category-banding","category-formula-one","category-geocaching-hobbies","category-sport","tag-all-england-lawn-tennis-and-croquet-club","tag-andy-murray","tag-centre-court","tag-fred-perry","tag-grange-moor-brass-band","tag-kirkwood-hospice","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-the-championships-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon","post_format-post-format-audio","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-5pN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","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=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}