{"id":8268,"date":"2006-01-01T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/01\/ah-those-were-the-days-2.html"},"modified":"2006-01-01T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T23:58:06","slug":"ah_those_were_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/01\/ah_those_were_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, those were the days …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone, somewhere, reminded me yesterday of the Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen<\/a>” skit …<\/p>\n

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
\nSECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o’ cold tea.
\nFOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar.
\nTHIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea.
\nFIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a cracked cup, an’ all.
\nFOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
\nSECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
\nTHIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.<\/p>\n

I love that skit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone, somewhere, reminded me yesterday of the Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen” skit … FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32448,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/okay-i-love-monty-python-as-much-as-the-next-fella-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":8268,"position":0},"title":"Okay, I love Monty Python as much as the next fella, but","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Feb-13 11:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... 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