{"id":2750,"date":"2007-02-08T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/england-is-a-nation-of-pussies\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:20:00","slug":"england-is-a-nation-of-pussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/england-is-a-nation-of-pussies\/","title":{"rendered":"England is a nation of pussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_1.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_2.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/hinxton_snow_feb2007_3.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s snowing today, and the whole country is going fucking mad. Half the people at work didn&apos;t show up today. Hundreds of schools are shut. Stansted is closed, and so was Gatwick for a while (but has subsequently reopened). All BA domestic flights are grounded. Rail travel is chaotic because of speed restrictions (what is an inch of snow going to do to a train???). People are urged to not drive unless they really have to; and then bring food, water, a blanket, a torch and a shovel if they go out. Last time it snowed, gridlock on the motorways was so bad people had to sleep in their cars. <\/p>\n<p>This is not an arctic blizzard people, this barely qualifies as a flurry. If you look closely at the pictures, you&apos;ll see that there&apos;s still grass showing through the snow. Visibility is fine. There&apos;s no wind, no sleet, no ice. And using an umbrella in a mild flurry? priceless.<\/p>\n<p>Pussies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It&apos;s snowing today, and the whole country is going fucking mad. Half the people at work didn&apos;t show up today. Hundreds of schools are shut. Stansted is closed, and so was Gatwick for a while (but has subsequently reopened). All BA domestic flights are grounded. Rail travel is chaotic because of speed restrictions (what&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/england-is-a-nation-of-pussies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;England is a nation of pussies&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Im","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}