{"id":2297,"date":"2017-04-02T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T01:10:51","slug":"local-telly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Local telly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the\u00a0many things I get roped in to<\/del> things I volunteer to help with is a fund-raiser for a children’s cancer charity. \u00a0 So I was down at the local TV station to help with answering phones to do my bit. \u00a0 The cameraman asked if we liked being on the telly, and I said “I was horrified” (I had forgotten that I am, in fact, that old). \u00a0We are there during the entire time when they do the news broadcast, and they spliced us in at random points as filler. \u00a0(Sorry there are no pictures of this as I was either busy, or pretending to look busy). \u00a0 After it was all over I ran an eyeball over the news room.<\/p>\n

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This is where the newsreader sits while delivering the news. \u00a0 The news team is a man (so to speak) short because one of the team just had her baby and is on maternity leave.<\/p>\n

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The cameraman is a robot that runs along this circular track, I presume a human tells it what to do (for now).<\/p>\n

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This is the weather guy. \u00a0Everyone else had buggered off, but he was sitting there still working. \u00a0Looks like he was picking weather pictures for the station’s Facebook page. \u00a0 He is pretty decent at his job, he was the only forecaster who called it correctly.<\/p>\n

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And this was the weather that morning. \u00a0 But because it’s spring, it was mostly gone by noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the\u00a0many things I get roped in to things I volunteer to help with is a fund-raiser for a children’s cancer charity. \u00a0 So I was down at the local TV station to help with answering phones to do my bit. \u00a0 The cameraman asked if we liked being on the telly, and I said … Continue reading Local telly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}