{"id":648,"date":"2011-01-10T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T13:38:44","slug":"morningtown-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Morningtown Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MrP_TheSeekers_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MrP_TheSeekers_2-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MrP_TheSeekers_2\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MrP_TheSeekers_2-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MrP_TheSeekers_2.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just watching episode 3 of The Trip with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. The two of them have a sing along in the car of The Seekers &#8211; &#8216;Morningtown Ride&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Its a song my Dad used to sing to me as a little child. Weird how I just heard the lyrics and it all came back to me.<\/p>\n<p>I remember we used to sing along to it when it would come on National Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Train whistle blowin&#8217; makes a sleepy noise<br \/>\nUnderneath their blankets go all the girls and boys<br \/>\nRockin&#8217;, rollin&#8217;, ridin&#8217;, out along the bay<br \/>\nAll bound for Morningtown, many miles away<\/p>\n<p>Right, back to watching The Trip. Its quite good. I recommend if you get the chance to see it you should. I tried to explain to my brother what I was watching; A comedy? A drama? A reality programme that follows these men around&#8230; it&#8217;s kind of all these things but none of them at all.<br \/>\nIt is however quite entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I was just watching episode 3 of The Trip with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. The two of them have a sing along in the car of The Seekers &#8211; &#8216;Morningtown Ride&#8217;. Its a song my Dad used to sing to me as a little child. Weird how I just heard the lyrics and it all came back to me.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=648\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,102,100,99],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-childhood-memories","tag-dad","tag-seekers","tag-tv","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}