{"id":31163,"date":"2006-05-17T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/05\/17\/dont-mention-the-war-i-mentioned-it-once-but-i-think-i-got-away-with-it-all-right\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T10:00:19","slug":"dont-mention-the-war-i-mentioned-it-once-but-i-think-i-got-away-with-it-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060517-19\/?p=31163","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawltysite.net\/episode06.htm\"><i>The Germans<\/i><\/a> is probably the most well-known episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/f\/fawltytowers_7772600.shtml\"> <i>Fawlty Towers<\/i><\/a>. Who better than John Cleese, therefore, to release the song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5409116\"> <i>Don&#8217;t Mention the War<\/i><\/a>, just in time for the World Cup. The purpose is to mend fences between Britain and Germany, but it might just make things worse, who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germans is probably the most well-known episode of Fawlty Towers. Who better than John Cleese, therefore, to release the song Don&#8217;t Mention the War, just in time for the World Cup. The purpose is to mend fences between Britain and Germany, but it might just make things worse, who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Germans is probably the most well-known episode of Fawlty Towers. Who better than John Cleese, therefore, to release the song Don&#8217;t Mention the War, just in time for the World Cup. The purpose is to mend fences between Britain and Germany, but it might just make things worse, who knows.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}