{"id":680,"date":"2008-11-20T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/?p=680"},"modified":"2008-11-20T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T18:20:40","slug":"recent-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/11\/20\/recent-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I haven&#8217;t updated this for ages, but I&#8217;m living a much less exotic (although no less enjoyable) life these days.<\/p>\n<p>Mum and Dad came out to visit me for a few days, against all the warnings of my colleagues (the weather is notoriously bad here in November).  We were quite lucky with the weather, less lucky with catching tourist attractions open.  For example, in Vadstena the main attractions are only open on weekdays during winter.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Mum and Dad outside the Arbetets museum (Museum of Work) in Norrk&ouml;ping:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Norrkoping\/MumDadNov2008_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Norrkoping\/MumDadNov2008_t.jpg\" title=\"Mum and Dad in the Industrial Landscape of Norrk\u00f6ping.\" alt=\"My parents standing on a bridge in front of part of a river, surrounded by former industrial buildings.  Mum and Dad are wearing big warm coats.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also just bought myself a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TcdcYhK6Pkc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TcdcYhK6Pkc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It should make keeping the many square metres of floor space in my apartment clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I haven&#8217;t updated this for ages, but I&#8217;m living a much less exotic (although no less enjoyable) life these days. Mum and Dad came out to visit me for a few days, against all the warnings of my colleagues (the weather is notoriously bad here in November). We were quite lucky with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}