{"id":295,"date":"2004-02-07T21:53:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2004-02-07T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T20:53:32","slug":"31-million-quid-not-to-get-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/31-million-quid-not-to-get-in\/","title":{"rendered":"31 million quid NOT to get in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was changing the daughter&#8217;s clothes after her midday nap today, she noticed her swimming trunks in the drawer and started talking about swimming and wanting to go.<\/p>\n<p>Time for diversion tactics. &#8220;Hmmm, maybe Bear would like to wear your swimming trunks? See he looks really cool in them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How to explain to a two year old that Hackney Council has spent 31 million pounds on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clissoldleisure.com\/2004\/02\/07\">a swimming pool which doesn&#8217;t actually work, and looks like it never will<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And not only that but Hackney Council have systematically run down or closed down many other swimming pools (for example <a href=\"http:\/\/londonpoolscampaign.ground-level.org\/londonfieldslido\">London Fields Lido<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haggerstonpool.com\/\">Haggerston<\/a>) allegedly to pay for the biggest white elephant this side of the Dome?<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was changing the daughter&#8217;s clothes after her midday nap today, she noticed her swimming trunks in the drawer and started talking about swimming and wanting to go. Time for diversion tactics. &#8220;Hmmm, maybe Bear would like to wear your swimming trunks? See he looks really cool in them!&#8221; How to explain to a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/31-million-quid-not-to-get-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;31 million quid NOT to get in&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackney-london","category-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}