{"id":224,"date":"2006-12-05T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=224"},"modified":"2006-12-05T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:02:00","slug":"worried-stiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/worried-stiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Worried stiff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/politedissent.com\/images\/aug04\/logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/politedissent.com\/images\/aug04\/logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>When I was a kid, I really loved a TV series called <i>The Tomorrow People<\/i> (<i>Fremtidsfolket<\/i> in Danish).  It was about kids who had the power to teleport around and who had a cool computer, and I remember running about in the garden shouting &#8220;Contact, Tim!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now rented the first few episodes on DVD, and it is very odd to watch: The actors are not very good, they speak with an exaggerated RP accent with odd idioms (one of them said his parents were <i>worried stiff<\/i>), and as Marcel said: &#8220;They have olden-days powers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I really loved a TV series called The Tomorrow People (Fremtidsfolket in Danish). It was about kids who had the power to teleport around and who had a cool computer, and I remember running about in the garden shouting &#8220;Contact, Tim!&#8221; I&#8217;ve now rented the first few episodes on DVD, and it is very odd to watch: The actors are not very good, they speak with an exaggerated RP accent with odd idioms (one of them said his parents were worried stiff), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}