{"id":1119,"date":"2010-12-14T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2010-12-14T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:57:04","slug":"too-much-bling-give-us-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Too much bling? Give us a ring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A CAMPAIGN to shop criminals who live off the proceeds of crime is being backed by a bus.  Southern Vectis has covered the back of one its double-decker buses with the Crimestoppers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 campaign, Too much bling? Give us a ring!  The crime charity hopes the campaign will lead to people reporting loan sharks, drug dealers, thieves and benefit cheats.  Marc Morgan-Huws, of Go South Coast, said Southern Vectis backed the campaign to support Crimestoppers keeping the Island safe.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwcp.co.uk\/news\/news\/buses-against-bling-36296.aspx\">IoW County Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem &#8230;. is this really a wise thing to say?  Bling isn&#8217;t my thing, if you know me you&#8217;ll already have noticed that!  But I think to brand those whose do enjoy sparkly, ostentatious, ornamentation as &#8220;loan sharks, drug dealers, thieves and benefit cheats&#8221; is going a bit far.  I&#8217;d back any campaign by Crimestoppers to keep my home area safe but I&#8217;d draw the line at targeting any one group of people by race, colour, sex, religion &#8230;&#8230; lifestyle taste (bling lovers) as likely candidates to be up to no good however lightly or amusingly it&#8217;s meant.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if that&#8217;s their game they can start by reporting this bus to Crimestoppers :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/blingbus.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/blingbus.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A CAMPAIGN to shop criminals who live off the proceeds of crime is being backed by a bus. Southern Vectis has covered the back of one its double-decker buses with the Crimestoppers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 campaign, Too much bling? Give us a ring! The crime charity hopes the campaign will lead to people reporting loan sharks, drug dealers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}