{"id":5743,"date":"2005-07-06T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2005-07-06T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T11:58:51","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/07\/06\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just heard that London has won the Olympic bidding process &#8211; and how did I hear? Not from the BBC &#8211; their server has given up the ghost. Not from Ananova or Reuters, who haven&#8217;t updated their pages with the news. I heard from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkbunnies.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"linkbunnies\">LinkBunnies<\/a> &#8211; officially first with the news.<br \/>\nAnyway, well done to the London bid team. I&#8217;m not sure if it is all a good thing or a bad thing &#8211; it&#8217;s probably good. I also think that I&#8217;ll start planning to be abroad whilst it is taking place.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisntlondon.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/london-2012-12-major-infrastructure.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"This Isn't London\">This Isn&#8217;t London<\/a> comes out of hibernation to list the major new infrastructure projects the announcement brings forward:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">145,000 estate agents have been mobilised in a four-mile radius around Stratford to add a zero to every house price they can find<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just heard that London has won the Olympic bidding process &#8211; and how did I hear? Not from the BBC &#8211; their server has given up the ghost. Not from Ananova or Reuters, who haven&#8217;t updated their pages with the news. I heard from LinkBunnies &#8211; officially first with the news. Anyway, well done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-sporting-life","category-the-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","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=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}