{"id":4062,"date":"2012-02-13T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2012-02-13T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:02:01","slug":"the-power-of-a-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/the-power-of-a-response\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of A Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at work on a Monday morning is never a great place to be! Why oh why do weekends go by so quickly! However a quick tweet on Twitter can change all that! When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anil_kapoor\" title=\"Anil Kapoor\">Anil Kapoor<\/a> in the audience at the BAFTA Awards ceremony last night at the Royal Opera House, I explained to Michelle that I looked forward to her seeing his rather limited appearance in Mission: Impossible &#8211; Ghost Protocol. That made me think, I was looking forward to the blu-ray release of the movie, so I could enjoy the spectacular ride with all my family (not just my beautiful wife, who is unfortunately not a big Tom Cruise or Mission fan!) In particular to show my Mum that there was a landmark she missed on her visit to Dubai in April last year. Sure, it would not be the same as in the BFI IMAX but a 50&#8243; HD plasma screen is not a bad substitute! (I need to clarify that, my parents have this piece of viewing equipment, not myself). So I thought I would tweet the Oscar winning film director, not expecting a response. Almost instantly, I got a response! Talk about making my day, Brad Bird just made my week! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teg\/6868354051\/\" title=\"BradBirdA113 Twitter Response by T3G, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7190\/6868354051_850a4db679.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" alt=\"BradBirdA113 Twitter Response\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at work on a Monday morning is never a great place to be! Why oh why do weekends go by so quickly! However a quick tweet on Twitter can change all that! When I saw Anil Kapoor in the audience at the BAFTA Awards ceremony last night at the Royal Opera House, I explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-film","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}