{"id":983,"date":"2015-12-10T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/?p=983"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:47:16","slug":"higher-gchqs-christmas-card-and-rle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2015\/12\/10\/higher-gchqs-christmas-card-and-rle\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher &#8211; GCHQ&#8217;s Christmas Card and RLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was reading the BBC news website which has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-35058761\" target=\"_blank\">GCHQ&#8217;s Christmas card<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2015\/12\/GCHQ.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"985\" 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