{"id":417,"date":"2008-01-04T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2008-01-04T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:27:17","slug":"antipodean-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Antipodean Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New year all you frozen northerners!!\u00c2\u00a0  I thought it finally time to do a bit of an update as there have been a few things worthy of note.  That and I&#8217;ve got off my lazy butt to do them.  Where to start!  Okay, as you all know late last year I had a nasty smash on the hiway between here and Motueka (Moutere Saddle for those of you with Google Earth), I&#8217;m now 99% recovered with just occasional neck pain and a small lump where the worst bruise was on my hip.  We purchased a European Ford Focus as the replacement car.  Purchased new, its very very nice (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.co.nz\/servlet\/ContentServer?cid=1132828823653&amp;pagename=FNZ%2FDFYPage%2FDefault&amp;c=DFYPage\">This colour and model.<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The second item of interest is that after almost exactly 25 years I decided to see what I looked like under the facial fur and shaved my beard off.  Yup, I&#8217;m smooth faced.  Pictures in the thingy Ian set up.  Apologies in advance for the poor quality of the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>We also purchased a new 40 inch flat screen TV in the post XMas sales.   Anything bigger would have been gratuitous and showy (eh Ian).  Its the first new TV I&#8217;ve ever purchased &#8230; I feel like such an adult! All I can say is WOW .. lord of the rings movies never looked so good as wide screen LCD &#8230;.. hmmmmm TV &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally finished knocking over and cutting up the HUGE eucalyptus trees that had lined the drive.  a one year project 10 trips tot he tip with rubbish hours on the saw and carting away the firewood.  Sigh  &#8230; only &#8230;. well another 14 trees to go!<\/p>\n<p>We are all filtering back to work over the next couple of days.  Its been hot and I do mean STINKY hot 30 plus too hot to be out chainsawing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8230; our new years was very bland.  We were both pooped and in bed by 10 pm.  How boring is that &#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New year all you frozen northerners!!\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it finally time to do a bit of an update as there have been a few things worthy of note. That and I&#8217;ve got off my lazy butt to do them. Where to start! Okay, as you all know late last year I had a nasty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}