{"id":221,"date":"2010-01-12T05:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-02-12T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:57:13","slug":"and-another-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"And another thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s rant about gritting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Up until recently, our road used to get gritted in cold weather, then a couple of years ago it stopped. I don&#8217;t like it, but since it isn&#8217;t a main road I can understand that the council&#8217;s priorities are elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>So, with councils across the UK being ordered to cut their gritting by 25%, and our council in particular complaining that the stocks are critically low and that the government has hijacked the extra grit they&#8217;d ordered, what happens?<\/p>\n<p>I get home last night to find our road has unexpectedly been gritted!!!<\/p>\n<p>While personally I&#8217;m happy, I&#8217;m also dumbfounded as to why Rochdale Council suddenly think they have grit to spare. I can only assume that some bean-counter has found some down the back of the sofa and they want to get rid of it before anyone else notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s rant about gritting&#8230; Up until recently, our road used to get gritted in cold weather, then a couple of years ago it stopped. I don&#8217;t like it, but since it isn&#8217;t a main road I can understand that the council&#8217;s priorities are elsewhere. So, with councils across the UK being ordered to cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}