{"id":2553,"date":"2010-05-26T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2010-05-26T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:40:52","slug":"the-depths-of-the-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"The depths of the south-west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England is one of those countries where it is much easier to travel north-south than it is to journey east-west. I was reminded of the situation this week when I travelled by train from London to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgwater.net\/\">Bridgwater<\/a> to attend a conference on next generation access or super-fast broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Now Bridgwater is not actually that far west, but door-to-door the outward journey took me four and half hours (with train delays) and the return trip took me five hours (with a train cancellation).<\/p>\n<p>At least the scenery in Somerset was wonderful and the weather was glorious. The place names around there are quaint; between Bristol and Bridgwater, the train stopped at Nailsea &amp; Backwell, Yatton, Worle, Weston Milton, Weston-super-Mare and Highbridge &amp; Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>Also I started to read an excellent novel called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/034912132X\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1408700778&amp;pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&amp;pf_rd_r=1E16EYC2S0GZDVQ0GGFE\">&#8220;The Glass Room&#8221;<\/a> by Simon Mawer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England is one of those countries where it is much easier to travel north-south than it is to journey east-west. I was reminded of the situation this week when I travelled by train from London to Bridgwater to attend a conference on next generation access or super-fast broadband. Now Bridgwater is not actually that far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}