{"id":3305,"date":"2017-04-18T07:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:13:52","slug":"manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter holiday saw me working away in Manchester, pushing packets south. I&#8217;d been to Manchester before, but it was a long time ago, and only a day trip, though work scahedule this time didn&#8217;t leave much time for sightseeing (but by Jeebus, that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchester_Town_Hall\">town hall<\/a>&#8216;s a bit of magnificent Victorian &#8220;fuck you, look how much money we have&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>We did have some downtime though; and some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?cat=340\">Manchester&#8217;s pubs<\/a> are fantastic: every bit as good as some of the best Birmingham ones, and there were great restaurants too, as you&#8217;d expect in a large city. I just wish we could get some of that variety in Walsall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter holiday saw me working away in Manchester, pushing packets south. I&#8217;d been to Manchester before, but it was a long time ago, and only a day trip, though work scahedule this time didn&#8217;t leave much time for sightseeing (but by Jeebus, that town hall&#8216;s a bit of magnificent Victorian &#8220;fuck you, look how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manchester<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}