{"id":621,"date":"2010-07-01T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2010-07-04T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T07:30:46","slug":"tyre-blow-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Tyre blow outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicrooms.net\/showbiz\/10072-Pink-Finally-Feel-Rock-Roll.html\">reported<\/a> that &#8220;Pink has praised her driver for safely manoeuvring her tour bus off a busy motorway after it blew a tyre yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, no one praised me for safely manoeuvring my bus when I had a tyre blow out today. I don&#8217;t even think they knew a tyre blew out.  Even I wasn&#8217;t quite sure if the loud bang was a tyre blowing or a plastic drinks bottle being run over!  I was in Salisbury, which is nearer to the Andover Stagecoach depot than my home depot of Winchester, so Andover came out with a spare wheel in a van.  Just one small problem they&#8217;d brought the wrong size spanner!  I call it a spanner but it&#8217;s really a wheel nut wrench.  Apparently we have larger nuts in Winchester than Andover! (Make of that what you will).  Salisbury is the &#8216;home&#8217; of Wilts &#038; Dorset buses and their depot is just up the road from the bus station so our fitter went begging for a bigger spanner there.  Thanks Wilts &#038; Dorset for the loan of your biggest spanner :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it was reported that &#8220;Pink has praised her driver for safely manoeuvring her tour bus off a busy motorway after it blew a tyre yesterday.&#8221; Sadly, no one praised me for safely manoeuvring my bus when I had a tyre blow out today. I don&#8217;t even think they knew a tyre blew out. Even [&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\/621"}],"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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}