{"id":5235,"date":"2004-09-28T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2004-09-28T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T10:19:12","slug":"higher-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/09\/28\/higher-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3696126.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">P&amp;O are closing most of their ferry routes out of Portsmouth<\/a>. It&#8217;s happened before &#8211; I remember news coverage in years gone by predicting doom and gloom for Portsmouth ferry terminal, but at least some of these routes will pass to Brittany Ferries, who will now become almost the monopoly service provider, which can only mean fare increases for those of us that use Portsmouth routes. I&#8217;m not surprised by today&#8217;s announcement though &#8211; the last few times that I&#8217;ve been on the ferry from Portsmouth, it has been nothing like full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, P&amp;O are closing most of their ferry routes out of Portsmouth. It&#8217;s happened before &#8211; I remember news coverage in years gone by predicting doom and gloom for Portsmouth ferry terminal, but at least some of these routes will pass to Brittany Ferries, who will now become almost the monopoly service provider, which can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}