{"id":673,"date":"2005-06-24T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2010-04-11T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:39:42","slug":"673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/673\/","title":{"rendered":"The quagmire returns &#8211; rain in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The quagmire returns<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8216;The chances of getting a heavy downpour are quite small&#8217;, said a Met Office spokesman yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, rrrright.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was the meanest, loudest, heaviest and longest thunderstorm  I can ever recall.<\/p>\n<p>From about 4am to 11am,the rain thudered, nay,<em> cascaded<\/em> down on my beleaguered tent.<\/p>\n<p>Almighty claps of thunder guaranteed that sleep was all but a distant hope as the heavenly pyrotechnics did their worst.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally emerged from my tent, the whole field was covered in a 5cm layer of water, rapidly turning into the trademark Glasto sludge.<\/p>\n<p>The rain&#8217;s finally stopped, but the paths are already turning into ankle deep rivers of mud. I suspect it&#8217;s going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>Will it spoil my enjoyment of the weekend? Will it fuck. Let&#8217;s party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quagmire returns &#8216;The chances of getting a heavy downpour are quite small&#8217;, said a Met Office spokesman yesterday. Yeah, rrrright. Last night was the meanest, loudest, heaviest and longest &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,193],"tags":[31,227],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-places","tag-rain","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-673","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}