{"id":2955,"date":"2023-07-14T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:06:14","slug":"blog-july-15th-tennis-email-and-the-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"Blog July 15th \u201cTennis- email and the first post\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2955-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wimbledon-2023-The-best-of-Mansour-Bahrami-in-the-Mixed-Invitations-Doubles-BBC-Sport.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wimbledon-2023-The-best-of-Mansour-Bahrami-in-the-Mixed-Invitations-Doubles-BBC-Sport.mp4\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wimbledon-2023-The-best-of-Mansour-Bahrami-in-the-Mixed-Invitations-Doubles-BBC-Sport.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Taken from https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/tennis\/66170486<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2955-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/23.5-Patiently-I-Wait-22_SV1_GUIDE.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/23.5-Patiently-I-Wait-22_SV1_GUIDE.mp3\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/23.5-Patiently-I-Wait-22_SV1_GUIDE.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Patiently I Wait For The Lord &#8211; featuring Edward Baker &#8211; Duly &#8211; guide vocal for Theophilus &#8211; the Musical &#8211; recorded by Joffy James<\/p>\n<p>I am usually more interested in Test cricket, especially, when it is the Ashes, but I just had to share this clip of a 67 year-old tennis player at Wimbledon. If anyone thinks they are getting old when they near the \u201cthree score and ten\u201d landmark then they need to watch this.<br \/>\nIncidentally my Virgin email has been down now for 7 days due to what has been described as an \u201coutage\u201d \u2013 basically an internet shutdown. I did not realise how much I relied on communicating through email and it made me wonder how people survived waiting for a letter to be delivered in the \u201colden days\u201d.<br \/>\nHere is an extract from a history of the Royal Mail:<br \/>\nWhen Charles I first introduced public mail service in 1635, letters were carried from one \u2018post\u2019 to the next \u2018post\u2019 by carriers on foot or on horseback. Up until that time, the post system was reserved for the use of the King and his Court. At each \u2018post\u2019 the \u2018postmaster\u2019 would remove the letters for his immediate area and then hand the rest to another \u2018post boy\u2019 who would carry them on. Letters took a long time to reach their destination with foot messengers travelling less than eighteen miles in a day. A letter sent to Edinburgh from London might not receive a response for nearly two months. However, this system would continue for another century and a half.<br \/>\nThere were six main post roads throughout England and Scotland and the very first \u2018post office\u2019 was set up in Bishopsgate Street in London. The four main post roads ran between London, Dover, Plymouth, and Edinburgh with Bristol and Yarmouth being added by the end of the century. Letters sent through the public postal service could travel only over these routes. This meant that a letter sent from Yarmouth to Edinburgh would have to travel through London. However, under this scheme, letters were to travel both day and night, and therefore could travel 120 miles in a 24 hour day. In the beginning, a letter written on a single sheet of paper would cost 2d to travel 80 miles with postage to Scotland from London being 8d and to Ireland 9d. In addition to this official post service, hundreds of carriers delivered letters and packages across the dominion in direct competition to the service.<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m complaining !!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2958\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/A.-A.-Milne-quote-Rivers-know-this-there-is-no-hurry.-We-shall-get-there-some-day.-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/A.-A.-Milne-quote-Rivers-know-this-there-is-no-hurry.-We-shall-get-there-some-day.-1.jpg 934w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/A.-A.-Milne-quote-Rivers-know-this-there-is-no-hurry.-We-shall-get-there-some-day.-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/A.-A.-Milne-quote-Rivers-know-this-there-is-no-hurry.-We-shall-get-there-some-day.-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/A.-A.-Milne-quote-Rivers-know-this-there-is-no-hurry.-We-shall-get-there-some-day.-1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/tennis\/66170486 Patiently I Wait For The Lord &#8211; featuring Edward Baker &#8211; Duly &#8211; guide vocal for Theophilus &#8211; the Musical &#8211; recorded by Joffy James I am usually more interested in Test cricket, especially, when it is the Ashes, but I just had to share this clip of a 67 year-old tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}