{"id":2192,"date":"2014-05-20T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2014-05-20T23:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:09:20","slug":"awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2014\/05\/20\/awkward\/","title":{"rendered":"awkward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if my American friends can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/Shows\/Shows\/ID\/2458499672\/\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a>, its an interview by a Canadian TV personality, George Stroumboulopoulos. I can\u2019t stand George and I\u2019m not a huge fan of the Prince, but I was a good deal put off by the beginning of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>The way it appeared to me, Strombo, as they are sitting down, unexpectedly sticks out his hand to the Prince, expecting to shake hands. Prince Charles appears not to notice at first, then, to spare George embarrassment, reaches out and shakes his hand.<\/p>\n<p>It might be just me, but I seem to recall that you just don\u2019t do that\u2026 If you meet a royal and they initiate a handshake, it\u2019s all good. But we commoners keep our hands to ourselves otherwise. At least \u2026 that\u2019s the way I think it is supposed to be done.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure on-air interviews aren\u2019t easy, for interviewee or interviewer. But wouldn\u2019t George have been briefed on protocol before he sat down with the Prince? Or is he just completely clueless? (I tend to think the latter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if my American friends can see this video, its an interview by a Canadian TV personality, George Stroumboulopoulos. I can\u2019t stand George and I\u2019m not a huge fan of the Prince, but I was a good deal put off by the beginning of the interview. The way it appeared to me, Strombo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,72,154],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2fYWj-awkward","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}