{"id":801,"date":"2011-07-30T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T08:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-07-30T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T08:47:38","slug":"the-environment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/07\/30\/the-environment-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"I name this ship ... The Environment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unthinkable, I know, so why did some committee or other think it a good idea to name one of First Great Western's increasingly aged low speed trains '<em>The Environment Agency'<\/em>. \u00a0I spotted this walking down one of Paddington's rejuvenated platforms the other day. \u00a0Such poverty of the imagination. \u00a0Time was when the original and only <em>Great Western<\/em> (it had no need to claim it was \"first\", everyone knew that) named its locomotives after Welsh Princes, Kings, Castles, Manors, Halls and Granges \u2014 and Warships. \u00a0It was the place, as Elvis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/e\/elvis+costello\/all+this+useless+beauty_20047267.html\">Costello<\/a> said, where \"legends and history collide\". \u00a0Not any more. I do believe there's even a train named after the University of Exeter. \u00a0Such depths ....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unthinkable, I know, so why did some committee or other think it a good idea to name one of First Great Western's increasingly aged low speed trains 'The Environment Agency'. \u00a0I spotted this walking down one of Paddington's rejuvenated platforms...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}