{"id":5,"date":"2006-09-01T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-09-01T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T13:21:58","slug":"road-resurfacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/01\/road-resurfacing\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Resurfacing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, our council had the bright idea of resurfacing some roads with a layer of hot tar covered with loose chippings. Needless to say this wasn&#8217;t very popular, nor was it longlasting, ending up with just the tar after just a few months or so.<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s been over a decade since I last say that crap go down so I thought they&#8217;d realised their folly and stopped using that method. Wrong!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago they resurfaced a road I cycle on the way into work, but missed a bit due to card parked there at the time.  Yesterday is wan&#8217;t so bad; most of the loose chippings having been dispersed so it wasn&#8217;t so uncomfortable to cycle over. Yesterday they finished it off and the whole road is covered in loose chippings again. What a total waste of taxpayers&#8217; money that crap is! False economy prevails from short sighted bean counters once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, our council had the bright idea of resurfacing some roads with a layer of hot tar covered with loose chippings. Needless to say this wasn&#8217;t very popular, nor was it longlasting, ending up with just the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/01\/road-resurfacing\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}