{"id":730,"date":"2007-11-26T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=730"},"modified":"2007-11-26T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:36:12","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mind the gap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Londoner who doesn&#8217;t drive, I use the London Underground a lot and constantly hear the injunction &#8220;Mind the gap&#8221;.  Today we have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/7113545.stm\">the news<\/a> that the woman whose voice makes these and other announcement for LU has been told she can no longer do work for the organisation.<br \/>\nIt seems that Emma Clarke offended LU bosses with her criticisms of LU. As a result of all the publicity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmaclarke.com\/\">her web site<\/a> is overwhelmed by visitors who want to download MP3s of her spoof Tube announcements such as :&#8221;We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly.&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt looks like London Underground has shot itself in the foot here. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if public reaction forces LU  to change its mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Londoner who doesn&#8217;t drive, I use the London Underground a lot and constantly hear the injunction &#8220;Mind the gap&#8221;. Today we have the news that the woman whose voice makes these and other announcement for LU has been told she can no longer do work for the organisation. It seems that Emma Clarke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}