{"id":7692,"date":"2020-05-26T05:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2020-05-26T05:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:57:48","slug":"skyways-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/05\/26\/skyways-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyways England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0Initially, I thought that this was an April Fool from the Department of Transport. \u00a0I mean, just who exactly thinks that skywriting adverts in a clear blue sky is a sign of social progress? \u00a0Is Chris Grayling back in charge? \u00a0Apparently there was a consultation ...<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just because ministers have the power to do something as crass as this is no good reason to actually do it. \u00a0What next: an agency with 10 people who earn more than the PM to pre-approve the messages and check the spelling: <em>Skyways England<\/em>? \u00a0Will there be a series of approved fonts do you think?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I despair. \u00a0There was I thinking that the government was concentrating on the defeat of COVID-19 when this egregious nonsense emerges. \u00a0It's not just common or garden everyday nonsense. \u00a0It's that special Department of Transport nonsense, like motorways without a hard shoulder, and overhead signage that prefers giving moral instruction to saying anything remotely useful about traffic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0I've written to my MP.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Initially, I thought that this was an April Fool from the Department of Transport. \u00a0I mean, just who exactly thinks that skywriting adverts in a clear blue sky is a sign of social progress? \u00a0Is Chris Grayling back in charge?...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}