{"id":1182,"date":"2006-08-05T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2006-08-05T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:27:57","slug":"80-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"80, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>ontrary to what I regularly do on Saturday mornings (about that later), I decided to listen to The Internationalist’s audio ‘travelcast’<\/a> (I don’t have a better name for this). Actually, the direct link is right here<\/a> (Player is Windows Media Player, but the page itself includes a downloadable mp3 file).\n<\/p>\n

It’s a long piece (running time is about 28 minutes), and I was surprised about the enthusiasm put in this recording. While I’m not particularly into podcasts<\/em>, they obviously work if done by people who are enthusiastic and interested in specific topics, which in this case is obviously exploration of cultural differences. You can after all still do that in Europe, where borders are a just a drive away. That said, dishing out 80 Euros for a trip in a gondol<\/em> in Venice sounds rather expensive to me too.\n<\/p>\n

Sticking with the number ‘Eighty’: I admit, I scour YouTube for typical 80s<\/em> clips of specific bands for no particular reason. It’s not that I do this ‘mindlessly’, which I’m apparently not: it’s that for some kind of reason, the site reminds me of the early days of the WWW, where every link brought you to a new destination (as opposed to the latest online ‘commercial endeavour’). But my god, who pays YouTube’s bandwidth bill<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contrary to what I regularly do on Saturday mornings (about that later), I decided to listen to The Internationalist’s audio ‘travelcast’ (I don’t have a better name for this). Actually, the direct link is right here (Player is Windows Media … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}