{"id":266,"date":"2007-02-08T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/snow-what-snow\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T20:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T20:18:56","slug":"snow-what-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/snow-what-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow? What Snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well surprise surprise, London and the home counties are affected by snow, so that means it&#8217;s national headline news.<\/p>\n<p>I woke this morning to a clear (but cold morning). I didn&#8217;t even have to clear the windows on the car, but according to BBC Breakfast, it&#8217;s the end of the world. They&#8217;re even talking about snowfall in centimetres. Is this to make it sound more than it really is? 5cm sounds more impressive than a measly 2 inches. The rest of Europe must be laughing at the pathetic Brits.<\/p>\n<p>If the tables were turned and the North of England and Scotland were covered in snow, then it would hardly get a mention. The Scots must be even more annoyed at this southern centric reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner the BBC move up to Manchester, the sooner we can start to reverse this southern bias in reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well surprise surprise, London and the home counties are affected by snow, so that means it&#8217;s national headline news. I woke this morning to a clear (but cold morning). I didn&#8217;t even have to clear the windows on the car, but according to BBC Breakfast, it&#8217;s the end of the world. They&#8217;re even talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,16,40,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}