{"id":1713,"date":"2008-09-24T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","slug":"we-must-learn-to-weather-the-weather-whether-we-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/we-must-learn-to-weather-the-weather-whether-we-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"We must learn to weather the weather, whether we like it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC weather site has had a revamp<\/a>. Apart from new pretty pictures it now tells you where your weather is coming from. I entered the postcode for work, OX11, and was told I was getting Reading&#8217;s forecast, that being the nearest available for that code. Reading is 25 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>I entered the postcode for Abingdon, OX14, and was told I was getting the weather for, well, Abingdon. Which is 7 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the weather in far-off Abingdon is scheduled to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 light showers, 14 degrees<\/li>\n<li>13:00 light showers, 15 degrees<\/li>\n<li>16:00 cloudy, 15 degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We Readingites are getting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 cloudy, 14 degrees<\/li>\n<li>13:00 light rain, 15 degrees<\/li>\n<li>16:00 cloudy, 14 degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d rather be in Abingdon. I work indoors, so the light showers won&#8217;t affect me, and it&#8217;ll be marginally warmer when I go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0BBC weather site has had a revamp. Apart from new pretty pictures it now tells you where your weather is coming from. I entered the postcode for work, OX11, and was told I was getting Reading&#8217;s forecast, that being the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/we-must-learn-to-weather-the-weather-whether-we-like-it-or-not\/\">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":[50],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensees","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}