{"id":173,"date":"2005-07-06T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:51:20","slug":"there-goes-the-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/07\/there-goes-the-neighbourhood.html","title":{"rendered":"There goes the neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">This is a distressing day.  My newly-adopted home has unexpectedly become the centre of an impending orgy of <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondgeezer.blogspot.com\/2005_07_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html#112060456543887542\">ruinously expensive onanism<\/a>, designed explicitly to price me out of my bunker.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">All the usual cargo-cult arsegargling about urban renewal is being bandied about.  They&#8217;re promising it&#8217;ll be like Barcelona, only with the lame walking and the blind playing I Spy, and without that greasy foreign food.  It could happen, but experience has shown you can&#8217;t trust large-scale events and development to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/martin.ward\/gkc\/books\/grocer.html\">a nation  of grocers<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Still, at least the deprived local kids will have that velodrome to enjoy for years to come.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a distressing day. My newly-adopted home has unexpectedly become the centre of an impending orgy of ruinously expensive onanism, designed explicitly to price me out of my bunker. All the usual cargo-cult arsegargling about urban renewal is being bandied about. They&#8217;re promising it&#8217;ll be like Barcelona, only with the lame walking and the [&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\/173"}],"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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}