{"id":22,"date":"2011-11-04T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T09:05:00","slug":"say-hello-to-my-little-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":">Say hello to my little pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>Those of you who have been following me on facebook or twitter (@W1tchseason) will have noticed a tendency to rant and rave, from time to time, about my pet hates and the things that make me cross. Once upon a time I could rather glibly say that the three worst things in the world, in no particular order (and that will give you a clue as to one of my hates), were wasps, beetroot and Annie Lennox &#8211; but I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s not that simple.<br \/>As I get older (and I&#8217;m now nearer 60 than 50) I&#8217;m finding that I have less and less tolerance for people who are ignorant, stupid, or both. And whereas in general I would agree that ignorance is no sin, in the age of the Internet where Google is everybody&#8217;s home page and Wikipedia top of their bookmarks list it&#8217;s getting harder to support that view. If you don&#8217;t know, FFS, look it up (or &#8216;use the Web, Luke&#8217; as we used to say at Psion).<br \/>So, rather than fill my FaceBook timeline and twitter feed with the same old crap, I&#8217;ve started a pair of blogs &#8211; one for my rants and pet hates (<a href=\"http:\/\/highestofhorses.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/highestofhorses.blogspot.com<\/a>) and one for my loves (<a href=\"http:\/\/littlestofponies.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/littlestofponies.blogspot.com<\/a>). There&#8217;s nothing on either of them yet (apart from this intro text) but you can see from the tags on each what they&#8217;re going to be about \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Those of you who have been following me on facebook or twitter (@W1tchseason) will have noticed a tendency to rant and rave, from time to time, about my pet hates and the things that make me cross. Once upon a time I could rather glibly say that the three worst things in the world, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,5,3,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyb.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}