{"id":107,"date":"2008-01-03T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/01\/03\/not_at_all_funny"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:08:13","slug":"not_at_all_funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/01\/03\/not_at_all_funny","title":{"rendered":"Not at all funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"BBC NEWS | Wales | North East Wales | Cycling fury at beheading 'joke'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/north_east\/7168530.stm\">BBC NEWS: Cycling fury at beheading &#8216;joke&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Parris, Times columnist and former Tory MP, has apologised in his column for making a joke about decapitating cyclists.  Among those it offended were the Rhyl Cycling Club in north Wales, which lost four members &#8220;when a car skidded out of control in icy conditions near Abergele on 8 January, 2006&#8221;.  The youngest was 14.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the joke is not at all funny for another reason: people have actually been known to string wire across roads to injure cyclists or motorcyclists.  I don&#8217;t know if anyone has ever been literally decapitated, but I remember a local news story about someone being injured when someone tied a wire across a dirt lane I used to cycle down as a child (Baker Boy Lane, near Forestdale on the outskirts of Croydon).  It&#8217;s a dangerous comment and the Times should not have published it; if I&#8217;d known before the response became news today, I might well have complained as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS: Cycling fury at beheading &#8216;joke&#8217; Matthew Parris, Times columnist and former Tory MP, has apologised in his column for making a joke about decapitating cyclists. Among those it offended were the Rhyl&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road_life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-1J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}