{"id":10758,"date":"2015-02-28T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2015-02-28T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:56:05","slug":"blogathon-2815-winding-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10758","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 28\/15 \u2013 winding things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Dewi Sant.<\/p>\n<p>Saint David&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>March 1st.<\/p>\n<p>And that means that this year&#8217;s Blogathon is at an end.<\/p>\n<p>Highs and lows, from my perspective?<\/p>\n<p>The deepest low was when I was so tired I could barely string a few words together.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several highs.<\/p>\n<p>BT Openreach gave me some satisfaction, when I documented just how useless they are, and how we, the service users, don&#8217;t have any recourse with regard to their inefficiency.<\/p>\n<p>I have just added an addendum to the <a title=\"Blogathon 20\/15 \u2013 not (Open)reaching out\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10537\" target=\"_blank\">BT Openreach saga<\/a> (in a nutshell, Openreach continue failing to deliver anything).<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the feeling of solidarity as I read Young Mr Masher&#8217;s <a title=\"What a trooper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masher.tv\/?p=3170\" target=\"_blank\">account of dragging himself from his sickbed<\/a>, after contracting Mrs Masher&#8217;s lurgy and converting it in to Manflu.<\/p>\n<p>I found Blogging Up The Works starting the <a title=\"The Long Goodbye\" href=\"http:\/\/uptheworks.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/02\/the-long-goodbye.html\" target=\"_blank\">process of saying goodbye to people<\/a>, as he prepares to relocate to France, quite evocative.<\/p>\n<p>But I think my favourite, this year, is <a title=\"Birds and bees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masher.tv\/?p=3172\" target=\"_blank\">Young Ms Masher&#8217;s view of the act of <del>fun<\/del> reproduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks for sticking with it (if you have).<\/p>\n<p>And thanks for dropping in occasionally (if you have).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Dewi Sant. Saint David&#8217;s Day. March 1st. And that means that this year&#8217;s Blogathon is at an end. Highs and lows, from my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}