{"id":16766,"date":"2022-05-18T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2022-05-18T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T22:42:09","slug":"wodehouse-and-other-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16766","title":{"rendered":"Wodehouse and other trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"P. G. Wodehouse on the inspiration for Jeeves and Wooster - BBC\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skUTvRZTFJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above, for no other reason<\/strong> than that somebody posted it on Facebook, a bit of an interview with P. G. Wodehouse. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s from the 1960s or so, and he had a long and productive career still ahead of him at that point. An inspiration to us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I note that somebody blocked sharing on the video of Norwegian Constitution Day festivities I posted yesterday. Just as well, I suppose. I thought it was from the same day, but I\u2019ve since seen actual 2022 footage, and everybody in the Royal Family looks older. I won\u2019t delete the post \u2013 a man might as well stand behind his honest errors and take his lumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The May 17 celebration last night went well, and I think my lecture was a success. So I was told, anyway. We had an actual Hardanger fiddle player there, dressed in a <em>bunad <\/em>(folk costume), which lent plausibility to the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gradually I am completing my preparations for my Great Adventure in Norway. Today I finally succeeded in alerting my credit card company to the fact that I\u2019ll be traveling to unaccustomed spaces. They have a button for that purpose on their member\u2019s page online, but pushing that button produces no results at all, like those &#8220;Close Door&#8221; buttons in elevators. So today I called them, worked my way through the phone tree, and got the notification done. I looked about me for the praise of the multitude, but alas, I was by myself. So I tell you now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next challenge, activating the European sim card I bought for my cell phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I\u2019m making progress on my Norwegian language comprehension. I decided yesterday that I was understanding just a little more of the news broadcasts on Norwegian state radio. Not enough to be of much practical use yet, but something. A little. Maybe. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above, for no other reason than that somebody posted it on Facebook, a bit of an interview with P. G. Wodehouse. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s from the 1960s or so, and he had a long and productive career still ahead of him at that point. An inspiration to us all. I note that somebody blocked sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wodehouse and other trivia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[2047,2049,4184],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-uncategorized","tag-norway","tag-norwegian-language","tag-p-g-wodehouse-2"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16769,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/16769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}