{"id":1641,"date":"2012-01-22T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2012-01-21T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T06:20:26","slug":"1641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/01\/22\/1641\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is World War II and Madge Arwell is trying to hide from her children the awful news that their father, a British bombing pilot, was lost over the Channel during a bombing mission.  It is Christmas Eve and she doesn\u2019t want to spoil Christmas for them.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI don\u2019t know why I keep shouting at them,\u201d she says, bottom lip trembling as she tries to put on a brave face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause every time you see them happy you remember how sad they\u2019re going to be. And it breaks your heart,\u201d replies The Doctor. \u201cBecause what\u2019s the point of them being happy now if they\u2019re going to be sad later? The answer of course, is that they\u2019re going to be sad later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Doctor Who, <em>The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe <\/em>(Christmas Special, 2011 BBC)<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is World War II and Madge Arwell is trying to hide from her children the awful news that their father, a British bombing pilot, was lost over the Channel during a bombing mission. It is Christmas Eve and she &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/01\/22\/1641\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}