{"id":910,"date":"2008-07-10T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2008-07-10T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T19:47:45","slug":"a-load-of-old-shite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"A load of old shite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, on the day that the new car tax rates are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7498884.stm\">in the news<\/a>, and Walsall&#8217;s Arboretum <strike>island<\/strike> <strike>traffic light fuck up<\/strike> junction fails <i>again<\/i> throwing the town&#8217;s traffic into chaos, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/2008\/07\/10\/fury-as-train-services-axed\/\">announced<\/a> that the Walsall-Wolverhampton train service is due to be axed because, according to transport minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomharrismp.com\/\">Tom Harris<\/a>, it \u201cdoes not add value to the franchise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the fuck that means. I know a tendency to talk bollocks is required in politics, so as to avoid conveying any meaning, but would anyone like to take a stab at that one?<\/p>\n<p>Once again, we&#8217;re taxed to hell and back for using cars, while our public transport so-called network gets reduced again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, on the day that the new car tax rates are in the news, and Walsall&#8217;s Arboretum island traffic light fuck up junction fails again throwing the town&#8217;s traffic into chaos, it&#8217;s announced that the Walsall-Wolverhampton train service is due to be axed because, according to transport minister Tom Harris, it \u201cdoes not add value &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A load of old shite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,20,21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life","category-politics","category-public-transport","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}