{"id":752,"date":"2007-07-23T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/off-ones-guard\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T16:21:19","slug":"off-ones-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/off-ones-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Off One&#8217;s Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one taken when I wasn&#8217;t aware the camera was snapping away. So it&#8217;s a non-posing pose. Except of course, I never really stop posing.<\/p>\n<p>And why shouldn&#8217;t I? Britain has 4.2 million CCTV cameras, more than in the rest of Europe put together. Everyone&#8217;s on camera. So the least one can do is make an effort to be worth looking at.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway Road, close to where I live, was recently declared the most CCTV-covered street in Britain. I like to think this is due to the fabulous dress sense of the average pedestrian there, rather than the high incidence of unkindness. If not, then it should be.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s this Canute-like attitude which I recognise in my expression below. It&#8217;s how I like to think I really am, or should be more often. Strange but essentially harmless.  Wanting the best for all. Blowing kisses at the drug dealers. Flirting with squirrels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/sitbrolly.jpg\" height=\"756\" width=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one taken when I wasn&#8217;t aware the camera was snapping away. So it&#8217;s a non-posing pose. Except of course, I never really stop posing. And why shouldn&#8217;t I? Britain has 4.2 million CCTV cameras, more than in the rest of Europe put together. Everyone&#8217;s on camera. So the least one can do is make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}