{"id":603,"date":"2010-11-01T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:27:36","slug":"75-miles-to-the-nearest-escalator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"75 miles to the nearest escalator"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em>&#8220;Tell me, I hear they have cappuccino in Aberystwyth now. Is it true?&#8221;<br \/> &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I said. &#8220;It&#8217;s true.&#8221;<br \/> The man smiled and gave a slight shake of his head. &#8220;My, my. And an escalator? I hear there is an escalator there now?&#8221;<br \/> &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think so. I think the nearest one is still in Shrewsbury.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Malcolm Pryce, &#8220;Don&#8217;t cry for me Aberystwyth&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Whilst the Malcom Pryce books are not 100% true (for example, the town is not run by a gang of mobster druids, and there&#8217;s not a strip joint at the end of the pier) they do contain a grain of truth, and as far as I know there is no escalator in Aber. There&#8217;s also no Marks &amp; Spencer, or Starbucks, which as far as I&#8217;m concerned is absolutely bloody marvellous. I&#8217;m feeling the lack of a branch of Lush though.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tell me, I hear they have cappuccino in Aberystwyth now. Is it true?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I said. &#8220;It&#8217;s true.&#8221; The man smiled and gave a slight shake of his head. &#8220;My, my. And an escalator? I hear there is an escalator there now?&#8221; &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think so. I think the nearest one is still in Shrewsbury.&#8221; Malcolm Pryce, &#8220;Don&#8217;t cry for me Aberystwyth&#8221; Whilst the Malcom Pryce books are not 100% true (for example, the town is not run by a gang of mobster druids, and there&#8217;s not a strip joint at the end of the pier) they do contain a grain of truth, and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=603\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}