{"id":538,"date":"2007-06-27T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T11:46:02","slug":"what-a-way-to-spend-a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"What a way to spend a birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was my birthday on Monday. So did I spend the evening having a delicious celebratory meal with my wife?<br \/>\nNo &#8211; instead, as a representative of Postwatch,  I was speaking at a protest meeting against a proposed conversion of a Crown post office in Fulham into a franchise operation by WHSmith. Predictably I had a rough time, since Postwatch cannot block such conversions and in fact understands the case for them.<br \/>\nYou can read a blog posting on the meeting from a local Conservative councillor <a href=\"http:\/\/thebristowblog.typepad.com\/the_bristow_blog\/2007\/06\/post-office-mee.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou can read my posting in response on the Postwatch blog <a href=\"http:\/\/postwatchuk.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/challenge-to-postwatch.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my birthday on Monday. So did I spend the evening having a delicious celebratory meal with my wife? No &#8211; instead, as a representative of Postwatch, I was speaking at a protest meeting against a proposed conversion of a Crown post office in Fulham into a franchise operation by WHSmith. Predictably I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","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\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}