{"id":329,"date":"2019-12-31T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:28:19","slug":"the-same-procedure-as-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"the same procedure as every year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>over christmas, I caught myself replying to a british friend with the comment &#8220;the same procedure as every year&#8221;.  Funnily enough the comment was lost on him, but a german would have known straight away and replied &#8220;the same procedure as every year miss sophie&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dinner For One was a British comedy sketch in an end of the pier show, which somehow found its way onto German TV every new year. Its now a tradition, a very big tradition. Its shown multiple times on the 31st and has been recoloured as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BN9edpdCH7c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Older brits will know the name of Freddy Frinton who plays the butler, but very few have actually heard of the sketch &#8211; much to amazement of most germans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy new year! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>over christmas, I caught myself replying to a british friend with the comment &#8220;the same procedure as every year&#8221;. Funnily enough the comment was lost on him, but a german would have known straight away and replied &#8220;the same procedure as every year miss sophie&#8221;. Dinner For One was a British comedy sketch in an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the same procedure as every year&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,1,37,38],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","category-video","category-youtube","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fIbJ-5j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philemery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}