{"id":1194,"date":"2010-04-15T12:55:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:33:17","slug":"bit-of-a-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bit-of-a-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Bit of a let-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just say that if all\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8621407.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK air traffic has to be grounded<\/a>\u00a0due to the presence of a vast cloud of volcanic ash in the skies above us, the least it could do would be to look exciting? You&#8217;d think? Something vaguely glowy, looming and pyroclastic, maybe? Huh?<\/p>\n<p>However, Best Beloved did recently spend 6 days in Sweden and I&#8217;m very glad the volcano waited to blow until she was back.<\/p>\n<p>In completely unrelated news, but it saves me doing a separate post: from the Department of How Do You Solve A Problem Like the 5-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, what the world needs more of is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/8618325.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kung fu nuns<\/a>. Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just say that if all\u00a0UK air traffic has to be grounded\u00a0due to the presence of a vast cloud of volcanic ash in the skies above us, the least it could do would be to look exciting? You&#8217;d think? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bit-of-a-let-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,184,185],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-life","tag-nuns","tag-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}