{"id":427,"date":"2010-04-14T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:53:05","slug":"souter%e2%80%99s-firm-bids-for-ferry-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Souter\u2019s firm bids for ferry route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brian Souter, the co-founder of the Stagecoach bus empire, is trying to take over the Caledonian Macbrayne ferry route between Gourock and Dunoon.&#8221; writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/souter-s-firm-bids-for-ferry-route-1.1020515\">The Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye was the accompanying picture<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/swebus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is that the only picture they could find of Brian Souter?  Did they want him to look at least a decade younger than he is?  Are they predicting the same future for the Caledonian Macbrayne ferry as Swebus?  Stagecoach bought Swebus and then sold it at a loss in 1999.  I guess the picture dates from time Stagecoach purchased Swebus which makes it around 14 years old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brian Souter, the co-founder of the Stagecoach bus empire, is trying to take over the Caledonian Macbrayne ferry route between Gourock and Dunoon.&#8221; writes The Herald. What caught my eye was the accompanying picture Is that the only picture they could find of Brian Souter? Did they want him to look at least a decade [&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\/427"}],"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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}