{"id":92,"date":"2004-08-16T22:32:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2004-08-16T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:32:57","slug":"spare-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Spare a thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last thing you expect when watching the news is to watch a pub you spent more than a few holiday evenings drinking in being <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/cornwall\/3570940.stm\">washed into the sea<\/a> by flash floods.  Having spent a superb summer holiday in Boscastle on the North Cornish coast, it was more than a little shocking not to say sad to watch the pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/Boscastle.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt is hard to comprehend just how terrifying a 10ft high torrent rushing down the steep narrow valley in the picture above would actually be.  Whilst not on the same scale as the recent climatic events in Florida and China, I&#8217;m sure this will be just as devestating to such a small community.  As you tuck up in bed, have a good thought for the residents and visitors who will be sleeping on the village hall floor tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last thing you expect when watching the news is to watch a pub you spent more than a few holiday evenings drinking in being washed into the sea by flash floods. Having spent a superb summer holiday in Boscastle on the North Cornish coast, it was more than a little shocking not to say [&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-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}