{"id":2307,"date":"2010-01-06T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/01\/06\/kingston_and_snow"},"modified":"2010-01-06T18:54:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:54:32","slug":"kingston_and_snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/01\/06\/kingston_and_snow","title":{"rendered":"Kingston and snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stopping to type this on my phone in the middle of a long trudge through the snow and ice on the back streets between Kingston and New Malden. I&#8217;m using the back streets to avoid a common hazard of British urban snow, namely narrow pavements sloped into main roads.<\/p>\n<p>There is one of these on the Richmond Road just on the way out of Kingston, which also happens to pass by the town&#8217;s big Sainsbury&#8217;s supermarket. I had to cling to railings at one point to keep from falling into the path of the traffic.<\/p>\n<p>I know they can&#8217;t grit every road, but they should make an effort to keep these pavements clear. It&#8217;s only a matter of time before someone does fall and get seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stopping to type this on my phone in the middle of a long trudge through the snow and ice on the back streets between Kingston and New Malden. I&#8217;m using the back streets&#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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london_life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-Bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","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=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}