{"id":182,"date":"2005-07-21T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T17:27:49","slug":"yes-my-parents-are-very-disappointed-in-me-thanks-for-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/07\/yes-my-parents-are-very-disappointed-in-me-thanks-for-asking.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, my parents are very disappointed in me. Thanks for asking."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">This is what happens when you&#8217;re stuck on a tube train with a discarded copy of the freebie morning newspaper.  You end up reading articles like &#8220;No one has emptied our bins for 15 years&#8221;, with quotes such as:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">A couple have created a towering heap of 15 years&#8217; rubbish next to their picturesque cottage &#8211; because the dustman will not come to collect it.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Council bosses refused to send lorries up the rough track to the Cale&#8217;s <em>[sic]<\/em> moorland home in the Yorkshire dales.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Mrs Cale, 65, who lives with her husband John [said]&#8230; &#8220;I am entitled to a back door service.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been complaining to the council that I haven&#8217;t had a man up my back passage for years.  They keep telling me it&#8217;s a tight squeeze down there but with a bit of care and patience they&#8217;d be amazed what will fit in.  When I was younger it was very different &#8211; I&#8217;d just stick out my can when the night man came around and he&#8217;d give it a proper seeing to.  I would be a happy woman if I were getting it once a week, or even once a fortnight.   But after 15 years without any action from the council I&#8217;m worried that if they do find someone who can get it up, he&#8217;ll be turned off by the smell.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you&#8217;re stuck on a tube train with a discarded copy of the freebie morning newspaper. You end up reading articles like &#8220;No one has emptied our bins for 15 years&#8221;, with quotes such as: A couple have created a towering heap of 15 years&#8217; rubbish next to their picturesque cottage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}