{"id":5201,"date":"2020-11-22T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2021-01-30T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T23:59:56","slug":"dinner-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/society\/dinner-for-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner For One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I stumbled onto an article about how this delightful little short is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most repeated TV program of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dinner for one - original with Freddie Frinton and May Warden\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BN9edpdCH7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Dinner For One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a New Year&#8217;s Eve tradition in Germany so they say. 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