{"id":377,"date":"2003-08-13T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/08\/party_tickets\/"},"modified":"2003-08-13T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T10:08:31","slug":"party_tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/party_tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as the book thing in the top left hand corner says, I&#8217;m currently reading &#8220;The Way We Live Now&#8221;. There was an excellent passage I was reading on the way home last night, detailing how 200 tickets to a dinner that Melmotte was giving to the Emporer of China were to be allocated. It was the end of this passage that particularly amused me:<br \/>\n<i>Three tickets were to be kept over for presentation to bores endowed with a power of making themselves absolutely unendurable if not admitted at the last moment&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re currently dishing out tickets to V Festival at the moment, and I know what he means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as the book thing in the top left hand corner says, I&#8217;m currently reading &#8220;The Way We Live Now&#8221;. There was an excellent passage I was reading on the way home last night, detailing how 200 tickets to a dinner that Melmotte was giving to the Emporer of China were to be allocated. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}