{"id":8518,"date":"2012-04-30T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:31:50","slug":"wettest-april-for-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8518","title":{"rendered":"Wettest April for a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day of April and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17897982\">the news<\/a> is now confirmed that in Britain it has been the wettest April for over a century with some areas receiving three times the normal rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on 1 April, I started a four-year contract with South East Water to chair the company&#8217;s Customer Challenge Group [further information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8164\">here<\/a>] and at the same time South East Water and six other companies issued drought orders.<\/p>\n<p>I hesitate to claim credit for the heavy rainfall and the relief this has given to the water companies, but some of my friends say that there is no such thing as coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day of April and the news is now confirmed that in Britain it has been the wettest April for over a century with some areas receiving three times the normal rainfall. Now, on 1 April, I started a four-year contract with South East Water to chair the company&#8217;s Customer Challenge Group [further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","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=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}