{"id":2427,"date":"2013-11-13T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:24:36","slug":"troweling-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"Troweling it on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After we heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2420\">70k Mayoral car<\/a>, you&#8217;d really think that any further news on the subject would be carefully considered.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem not. From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2013\/11\/13\/a-mayor-needs-a-car-says-leader-in-defence-of-50k-jaguar\/\">Express and Star story<\/a>, a quote from Mike Bird, showing <a href=\"http:\/\/brownhillsbob.com\/2011\/08\/31\/the-madness-of-king-bird\/\">great talent for PR<\/a> again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you are a bricklayer you have a trowel, a painter needs a paintbrush and a mayor needs a car.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we let the terrible analogy pass (or not: surely a Mayor needs a pointy hat and gold chain, following the series, because we&#8217;re looking at tools to do the job, not a means of getting there?), then we can go and make a comparison.<\/p>\n<p>My friend is a brickie. A damned good one. I asked him how much a top-notch bricklayer&#8217;s trowel, the kind of thing you&#8217;d use as a pro, costs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?channel=fs&#038;q=marshalltown+brick+trowel&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;gl=uk&#038;gws_rd=cr&#038;ei=bPqDUq2rAcmqhAeYuoCACg\">\u00a340, for a Marshalltown<\/a>, in case you want one. I don&#8217;t know any painters, so I can&#8217;t ask about paintbrushes.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy over 1700 top-notch brick trowels for the price of the Jag&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we heard about the 70k Mayoral car, you&#8217;d really think that any further news on the subject would be carefully considered. It would seem not. From an Express and Star story, a quote from Mike Bird, showing great talent for PR again: If you are a bricklayer you have a trowel, a painter needs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troweling it on<\/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":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","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=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}