{"id":5305,"date":"2004-11-10T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2004-11-10T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T20:32:20","slug":"no-smoke-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/11\/10\/no-smoke-without\/","title":{"rendered":"No smoke without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/3999975.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Scottish Executive unanimously decides to ban smoking in public enclosed places<\/a>. Scotland&#8217;s First Minister, Jack McConnell, said there would be an international marketing campaign whereby &#8220;tourists can enjoy smoke free environment and the sick man of Europe image becomes a thing of the past&#8221;. To which I can only say four words: Deep. Fried. Mars. Bars.<br \/>\nSeriously, though, what&#8217;s the betting that there&#8217;ll be similar legislation in the rest of the UK within three to five years? And what impact will it have on pubs, particularly those more rural pubs that are important to their community but already struggling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Executive unanimously decides to ban smoking in public enclosed places. Scotland&#8217;s First Minister, Jack McConnell, said there would be an international marketing campaign whereby &#8220;tourists can enjoy smoke free environment and the sick man of Europe image becomes a thing of the past&#8221;. To which I can only say four words: Deep. Fried. Mars. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","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=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}