{"id":344,"date":"2007-02-02T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/02\/those-crazy-belgians\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T17:49:11","slug":"those-crazy-belgians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/those-crazy-belgians\/","title":{"rendered":"Those crazy Belgians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two amusing aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/cornwall\/6323551.stm\">this article<\/a>, entitled &#8220;U-turn lorry stuck in cul-de-sac&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> The foreign-registered lorry was carrying 23 tonnes of coke when it became trapped while manoeuvring in Whiterock Road in Wadebridge.<\/p>\n<p>Do they mean coke? Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coca-cola.com\/\">Coke<\/a><sup>&reg;<\/sup>? Or perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coke_(fuel)\">a solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>> Traffic was largely unaffected, but police urged motorists to find alternative routes after the accident, which occurred at about 0600 GMT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Find alternative routes&#8230; it&#8217;s a cul-de-sac!<\/p>\n<p>*(bangs head against desk repeatedly)*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two amusing aspects of this article, entitled &#8220;U-turn lorry stuck in cul-de-sac&#8221;&#8230; > The foreign-registered lorry was carrying 23 tonnes of coke when it became trapped while manoeuvring in Whiterock Road in Wadebridge. Do they mean coke? Or Coke&reg;? Or perhaps a solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal? > [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inthenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}