{"id":1143,"date":"2010-12-22T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:58:03","slug":"not-working-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Not working this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone wants a week&#8217;s holiday at Christmas but only a limited number of drivers can be off at any one time.  At our depot the opportunity to take holiday at Christmas revolves and this year I was in the top eight so took this week as holiday, next year I&#8217;ll be bottom of the &#8216;pile&#8217; as it rotates.  That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a bit quiet here.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we had to go to Portsmouth for a <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=546#more-546\">Passport Interview<\/a> for Tina, our 16 year old.  Before the interview we were having coffee in Costa Coffee when we heard a loud bang.  Here&#8217;s what happened outside (click on the picture to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/crash1big.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/crash1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, another picture taken from the opposite direction after the car had been removed.  No, we didn&#8217;t hang around that long!  The first picture was taken after we left the Costa to go to the interview and the second on our way back later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/crash2big.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/crash2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see that the vehicle was in a pedestrian area and at its dead end.  How it came to be travelling fast enough to do that amount of damage to the vehicle and tree is beyond me &#8211; it was driving on the pavement in the pedestrian area!  Thank heavens neither we nor anyone else was walking there at that moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone wants a week&#8217;s holiday at Christmas but only a limited number of drivers can be off at any one time. At our depot the opportunity to take holiday at Christmas revolves and this year I was in the top eight so took this week as holiday, next year I&#8217;ll be bottom of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"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=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}