{"id":237,"date":"2005-07-22T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-07-22T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:14:00","slug":"riding-up-the-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Riding up the Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the events of recent weeks and to calm the nerves of a nervous mother, I decided that I would accompany my daughter to her school on the last day of term &#8211; not on the Tube as she would usually but choosing the river bus instead.  So, after picking up her friend, we made our way to the Masthead Terrace Pier, where we boarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thamesclippers.com\/\">Thames Clipper<\/a> service which runs to Savoy Pier. <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/clipper-755974.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/clipper-754234.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> From here, it was a short walk along the Embankment and across Parliament Square, from where the girls headed to the school and I pedalled off towards Paddington Station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/MyB-702522.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/MyB-700640.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOnce again, there is a great deal of police activity in London today including the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/4706913.stm\">fatal shooting by armed police<\/a> of a man on the transport network this morning, followed by a suspect package at a mosque and now the search of an internet cafe.  This being the case, I think I might just take a nice, quiet circuitous route home this afternoon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-create.g?blogID=7150298\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the events of recent weeks and to calm the nerves of a nervous mother, I decided that I would accompany my daughter to her school on the last day of term &#8211; not on the Tube as she would usually but choosing the river bus instead. So, after picking up her friend, we made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}