{"id":150,"date":"2005-05-20T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=150"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:49:26","slug":"news-flash-of-interest-to-low-level-druggies-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/news-flash-of-interest-to-low-level-druggies-only.html","title":{"rendered":"News Flash! (Of interest to low-level druggies only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I was so distracted by <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/centres-of-tradition.html\">Basil Brush&#8217;s Boom-Booms<\/a> the other day that I didn&#8217;t notice something very important: British supermarkets stock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudafedpromotions.com\/default.asp\">Sudafed<\/a> on the shelves!  Wheeeeeeeee!  Why don&#8217;t the Lonely Planet guides mention this?<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">This has brightened my whole day.  I was about to post a rant about the difficulties of opening a bank account in the UK: basically, you need to present your passport, birth certificate, parent&#8217;s birth certificates, a personal letter of introduction from your local MP or Peer, a photograph of yourself shaking hands with a player in a premiership league football team, evidence of your income, and evidence that you are a customer of good standing at another bank &#8211; which you must then renounce by burning all your other passbooks and bank cards in a bonfire verified by three independent witnesses.  On the other hand, considering that these are the same requirements demanded by jumped-up shampoo salesmen in Australian pharmacies when you try to buy Sudafed, it&#8217;s a swings-and-roundabouts kind of deal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so distracted by Basil Brush&#8217;s Boom-Booms the other day that I didn&#8217;t notice something very important: British supermarkets stock Sudafed on the shelves! Wheeeeeeeee! Why don&#8217;t the Lonely Planet guides mention this? This has brightened my whole day. I was about to post a rant about the difficulties of opening a bank account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}