{"id":1911,"date":"2010-09-19T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/blighty\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:21:02","slug":"blighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/blighty\/","title":{"rendered":"Blighty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"skip_next_door.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/skip_next_door.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"359\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judging from the many, many<\/strong> house renovation projects going on in my area (Leyton &#8212; vicariously experience the charms by <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/thecolourgrey\/leyton\/\" >buying the typeface<\/a>), people around here are making an investment in their homes. While that\u2019s a good sign overall for the prospects of a pleasant neighborhood where I have a great deal on a room in a super flat with a super flatmate, it leads to some&#8230;irritation. Like this GIANT SKIP RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT WILL NEVER EVER GO AWAY as near as I can tell. Sure, it makes it easy to direct people to where I live, but it&#8217;s kinda ugly, right?<\/p>\n<p>The builders next door are gutting the former home of a sweet old lady who passed away a while ago, but apparently they do about an hour of work a day, and this damn skip will be eligible for protection as a historical feature soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the many, many house renovation projects going on in my area (Leyton &#8212; vicariously experience the charms by buying the typeface), people around here are making an investment in their homes. While that\u2019s a good sign overall for the prospects of a pleasant neighborhood where I have a great deal on a room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/blighty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blighty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69184,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/69184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}