{"id":364,"date":"2009-02-05T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-02-05T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T09:08:10","slug":"snow-and-young-people-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Snow, and Young People Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days it has seemed like it was a nation-wide wind-up that there was snow, seeing as everyone all around us in the country was claiming to have had loads of snow, yet we had hardly seen a thing.  This morning, however, it arrived.  About 4 inches, I think.  Not 10cm, because you measure snow in *Imperial*, like beer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/st-giles-snow.jpg\" alt=\"St Giles in the snow\" title=\"St Giles in the snow\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing that depressed and upset me this morning though was the behaviour of certain younger members of the public: some 10-13-year-old schoolboys.  They were throwing snowballs at the bus[1].  I wasn&#8217;t upset about the fact that they were throwing snowballs, which in the circumstances is acceptable scallywaggery.  No, I was upset because their aim was so shocking.  Clearly, these boys lack even a rudimentary understanding of simple projectile mechanics.  It&#8217;s very, very sad.  This is surely a reflection on their Modern Education.  I mean, come on!  The bus was 10m long and moving at less than 20mph: a toddler could have managed to hit it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[1] No way I was biking today, thank  you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days it has seemed like it was a nation-wide wind-up that there was snow, seeing as everyone all around us in the country was claiming to have had loads of snow, yet we had hardly seen a thing. This morning, however, it arrived. About 4 inches, I think. Not 10cm, because&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=364\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}