{"id":3656,"date":"2010-01-11T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:50:21","slug":"a-bit-of-snow-and-the-country-goes-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/a-bit-of-snow-and-the-country-goes-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of snow and the country goes mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in the UK for coming on 5 years now. Every year I&#8217;ve been here, it has snowed at some point. Every year, people lose their mofo&#8217;n mind and go totally batshit. People sleep in their cars and offices. Schools close down for weeks. People empty gas station tanks and Tesco shelves are barren. <\/p>\n<p>Every damn year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/uk_snow_2010.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you know what? People still don&#8217;t learn their lesson and prepare for it. Snow tires are unheard of, except in the far reaches of Scotland. Grit and salt are always in too short a supply, and there is no infrastructure to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in the UK for coming on 5 years now. Every year I&#8217;ve been here, it has snowed at some point. Every year, people lose their mofo&#8217;n mind and go totally batshit. People sleep in their cars and offices. Schools close down for weeks. People empty gas station tanks and Tesco shelves are barren&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/a-bit-of-snow-and-the-country-goes-mad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A bit of snow and the country goes mad&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[109,277,49],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots","tag-snow","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-WY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}