{"id":921,"date":"2013-11-21T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:55:09","slug":"sailing-courses-in-london-monty-python-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/sailing-courses-in-london-monty-python-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Courses in London &#8211; Monty Python style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get if you cross our office based theory courses and Monty Python?<\/p>\n<p>Well we\u2019re sure some of you will be shouting \u201cAlbatross!\u201d or even \u201cA dead parrot!\u201d but do you remember this classic Python short film that preceded the Meaning of Life &#8211; imagine learning to sail in a London office\u2026 and then sailing the office out of the city!<\/p>\n<p>You can watch \u201cThe Crimson Permanent Assurance\u201d below (but beware of some strong language towards the end!). See if you can spot the cameos of Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the short.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NZeOUI2zEbo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Terry Gilliam\u2019s short film (created as a short film to precede the Pythons\u2019 1983 movie The Meaning of Life) depicts a family-owned London firm which has been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America. Driven like slaves, the team eventually revolt against their American bosses, locking some in their safe and forcing their leader to walk the plank.<\/p>\n<h2>Sailing a Course from London<\/h2>\n<p>But why stop there? The team transform their London office into a pirate ship, complete with \u2018sails\u2019 (actually tarpaulins attached to scaffolding on one side of the building). The \u2018crew\u2019 of the Crimson Permanent Assurance \u2018sail\u2019 their new craft from London to America, where they seek out the Very Big Corporation\u2019s skyscraper. They attack the building with filing cabinet \u2018cannons\u2019 and engage the building\u2019s executives in a spot of sword fighting.<br \/>\nWhile we can\u2019t guarantee that you\u2019ll be able to sail your London office building across the ground to America, First Class Sailing provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/Sailing-Courses-in-Your-Office.html\">shorebased theory courses<\/a> which can be held at your office! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get if you cross our office based theory courses and Monty Python? Well we\u2019re sure some of you will be shouting \u201cAlbatross!\u201d or even \u201cA dead parrot!\u201d but do you remember this classic Python short film that preceded the Meaning of Life &#8211; imagine learning to sail in a London office\u2026 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn-to-sail"],"views":12269,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}