{"id":15826,"date":"2025-09-03T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15826"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:11:12","slug":"hotels-and-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15826","title":{"rendered":"Hotels and roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Commenting on the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/police-attend-protest-outside-london-hotel-which-will-be-housing-asylum-seekers-13400395\"> present intimidatory actions of the far right<\/a> out in the streets, this still from a well-known scene in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/\"><em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em><\/a> currently doing the rounds on social media has been given the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_meme\">meme<\/a> treatment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/hotels-e1756897157938.jpg\" alt=\"John Cleese on the battlements in the centre of two block of text. 1) Your mother paints roundabouts. 2) And your father shouts at hotels.\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15849\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>No further comment is required apart from saying that in the film, Clees and his companions within the castle were all playing <em>forrins<\/em>, insulting and humiliating Arthur and his knights of the round table.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the present intimidatory actions of the far right out in the streets, this still from a well-known scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail currently doing the rounds on social media has been given the meme treatment. No further comment is required apart from saying that in the film, Clees and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[16,22,35],"class_list":["post-15826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15826"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15859,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions\/15859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}