{"id":12147,"date":"2017-05-13T17:40:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2017-05-13T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:40:55","slug":"away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12147","title":{"rendered":"Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I drove to Scotland, spent an hour in a place, then drove back home.<\/p>\n<p>Then late Wednesday I drove down to Hensol, which is west of Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>And on Friday afternoon I drove back from Hensol to Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>Although a bit knackered, because I don&#8217;t sleep well away from home, both trips were interesting and, in their own way, educational.<\/p>\n<p>More about the Scottish one in due course, if it all happens as planned.<\/p>\n<p>But the Welsh one was an annual company conference.<\/p>\n<p>The conference wound up with a light-hearted moment, a musical pub quiz.<\/p>\n<p>When this was announced I thought I was quids in, obv.<\/p>\n<p>Being a music geek and all.<\/p>\n<p>How wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p>How very wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the quiz was a sortov mashup of 17 songs across an Ed Sheeran song.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the words Ed Sheeran my heart sank quicker than than a quickly sinking thing.<\/p>\n<p>But we gave it a go, our little group.<\/p>\n<p>The object of the exercise was to name the songs &#8211; and the artists &#8211; of all 17 songs that were performed by The Vamps across (mercifully) just a few bars of an Ed Sheeran song.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a go, and let me know &#8211; out of a potential score of 34, one point for each artist and one point for each song &#8211; how many points you get.<\/p>\n<p>But play the same game that we did.<\/p>\n<p>Blank out the screen, because all songs and artists are listed on this video (they weren&#8217;t on the video we saw):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P4oSRlQqjf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I drove to Scotland, spent an hour in a place, then drove back home. Then late Wednesday I drove down to Hensol, which<\/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-12147","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\/12147","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=12147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}