{"id":2907,"date":"2019-06-12T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:20:07","slug":"morgan-meet-me-at-the-baird-a-story-exaggerated-so-cut-the-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"“Morgan, meet me at the Baird .” (a story exaggerated so cut the criticism)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TWO REASONS TO VISIT THE BAIRD PUB IN MUSWELL HILL<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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\u201cGrandpa, said to meet him here\u2026I can only imagine why.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, yes, the Baird\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOnly pub in  Muswell Hill, unless you count the converted church  on the main street.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, sort of an odd place for us to meet.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHistoric place, Marjorie\u2026in TWO WAYS.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cReally, how?\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWell, Morgan, has just turned 18 so  I thought it would be a good idea  to meet at the Baird.\u201d<\/div>\n

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“And have her first glass of beer\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAlan, that is  a gross idea\u2026don\u2019t you agree Morgan?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI do.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cJust a sip\u2026make it look authentic.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOK, grandpa.\u201d<\/div>\n

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“And REASON NUMBER TWO?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLook behind  Morgan and the beer glass\u2026what do you see?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOld TV sets\u2026junk\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRight\u2026On this site a young Scot name JOHN LOGIE BAIRD invented the first TV set back in 1922\u2019<\/div>\n
\u201cAre you kidding?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNope\u2026Baird  was a mechanical genius  but poor as  a church mouse.  He took sick which gave him time<\/div>\n
to tinker with electronics\u2026really primitive\u2026and what he invented  was television.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy  would  Morgan be interested in that?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cShe is standing on the edge of adulthood\u2026life takes strange directions\u2026twists and turns\u2026sometimes<\/div>\n
a twist leads  on to great things.   Sometimes a person cannot see where life is going.   Morgan knows all  that but<\/div>\n
I thought this visit to the Baird would just put some icing on the cake\u2026some beer foam on the pint as it were.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd sometimes  pictures are very deceptive\u2026like the picture above.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201c\u2026and the same applies to words.\u201d<\/div>\n

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“Here is the history of John Logie Baird.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI have never seen anyone stop to read it\u2026Morgan is a reader which<\/div>\n
is  wonderful for she will read and  remember this visit.”<\/div>\n

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TWO REASONS TO VISIT THE BAIRD PUB IN MUSWELL HILL alan skeoch June 2019 \u201cGrandpa, said to meet him here\u2026I can only imagine why.\u201d \u201cAh, yes, the Baird\u2026\u201d \u201cOnly pub in  Muswell Hill, unless you count the converted church  on the main street.\u201d \u201cAlan, sort of an odd place for us to meet.\u201d \u201cHistoric place, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}