{"id":231,"date":"2008-01-11T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/11\/garage-banned\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T11:21:00","slug":"garage-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/11\/garage-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My car failed its MOT the other day; nothing serious, no big surprise: the driver&#8217;s side mirror is broken. (Mine and another car were waiting at traffic lights. They were on red and it was a two-lane road but a third car drove between us, smashing my mirror and careering on up the road.)<\/p>\n<p>The garage didn&#8217;t have a replacement mirror so I&#8217;ve taken my car home and they were supposed to be ringing round to get me one. <\/p>\n<p>I just phoned to see what was happening:<\/p>\n<p>GARAGE: Ah, yes, he&#8217;s just fitting it now.<br \/>ME: Unlikely. The car&#8217;s here. <br \/>GARAGE: Oh. <\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My car failed its MOT the other day; nothing serious, no big surprise: the driver&#8217;s side mirror is broken. (Mine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/11\/garage-banned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-3J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}