{"id":6221,"date":"2007-11-01T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2007\/11\/not-as-good-as-it-used-to-be\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T09:56:39","slug":"not-as-good-as-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/01\/not-as-good-as-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Not as good as it used to be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;could probably be an appropriate new subheading for this website, but hey-ho. I could bore you with all the usual stuff about being time-poor blah blah blah, but you get enough of that on other sites.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the meantime, here are a few things that I&#8217;ve been pondering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are standards in education and general knowledge so poor these days that a crew member (in catering)\u00a0on a ferry between Dover and Dunkerque really doesn&#8217;t know where the Netherlands are?<\/li>\n<li>is the proliferation of carved pumpkin usage in this country the result of an increased belief in evil spirits associated with an increase in secularism or merely the by-product of the Hallmarkisation of every other day of the year?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;could probably be an appropriate new subheading for this website, but hey-ho. I could bore you with all the usual stuff about being time-poor blah blah blah, but you get enough of that on other sites. However, in the meantime, here are a few things that I&#8217;ve been pondering: are standards in education and general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grayblogcouk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","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=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}