{"id":2693,"date":"2010-10-21T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/10\/21\/why-didnt-they-use-the-fire-doors"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:31:17","slug":"why-didnt-they-use-the-fire-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/10\/21\/why-didnt-they-use-the-fire-doors","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t they use the fire doors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, just after I finished my post on the &#8220;communication shutdown&#8221; supposedly in aid of autism, the fire alarm went off in the Bentalls centre in Kingston where I had written it (in the Apple Store). Of course, I had to ask the staff whether I was meant to be evacuating, as hearing alarms of one sort or another happens a lot there and nobody seemed to be in a hurry to leave.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice loads of people crowding round the escalator which would have been pretty dangerous if it hadn&#8217;t been a false alarm. When I was a kid, I used to be fascinated by the thought of going through one of those doors you couldn&#8217;t go through (except in an emergency), although anyone who&#8217;s ever been a delivery driver knows that there&#8217;s not much exciting behind them, only long, dimly-lit corridors with breeze block walls. However, yesterday I headed for the nearest fire exit and probably got out quicker than if I&#8217;d waited for a place on the escalator. Perhaps they should make the signs light up so people know they should use all the exits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, just after I finished my post on the &#8220;communication shutdown&#8221; supposedly in aid of autism, the fire alarm went off in the Bentalls centre in Kingston where I had written it&#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-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london_life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-Hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","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=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}