{"id":942,"date":"2008-07-15T20:31:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=942"},"modified":"2008-07-15T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:33:20","slug":"the-dregs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/the-dregs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dregs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weds July 2nd &#8211; early hours.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the airline crew lets Shane have a small glass of wine after all, towards the end of the flight. The rest of the time, he sleeps.<\/p>\n<p>I drop him off at his Dublin house, as the sun comes up. The lady taxi driver tells him she&#8217;s a big fan. A nice touch of symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Then I groggily catch my connection to Heathrow, make it home for a nap, and eventually report back to the Boogaloo that evening. The jet lag won&#8217;t really hit me till after Mum&#8217;s ceremony: the adrenalin about <em>that<\/em> is now keeping me going.<\/p>\n<p>On this particular Wednesday evening, it&#8217;s the bar&#8217;s monthly film quiz. As I enter I note the current round is about &#8216;Dragons In Movies&#8217;. The projection screen shows a still from <em>Q &#8211; The Winged Serpent<\/em>, a very silly 80s horror flick about a dragon who lives at the top of the Chrysler Building.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, New York goes back to being something from the movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weds July 2nd &#8211; early hours. As it turns out, the airline crew lets Shane have a small glass of wine after all, towards the end of the flight. The rest of the time, he sleeps. I drop him off at his Dublin house, as the sun comes up. The lady taxi driver tells him [&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-942","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\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}