{"id":1874,"date":"2011-06-24T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2011-06-24T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:26:02","slug":"malta-buses-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Malta buses again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear better half pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1271\">this article<\/a> from the BBC telling of the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1271\">loevely old Malta buses<\/a>, and the rather nice model of self-employed drivers and cheap fares that goes with it. In goes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arriva.co.uk\/\">Arriva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Dear.<\/p>\n<p>Even without all the misty-eyed nostalgia and the smell, sound and experience of some ancient old diesel, is this really going to produce a better transport system? It&#8217;s worked so well here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear better half pointed out this article from the BBC telling of the end of the loevely old Malta buses, and the rather nice model of self-employed drivers and cheap fares that goes with it. In goes Arriva. Oh Dear. Even without all the misty-eyed nostalgia and the smell, sound and experience of some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malta buses again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}