{"id":1765,"date":"2008-04-19T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2008-04-19T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T13:06:27","slug":"foreigners-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/foreigners-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners smell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7354538.stm\">It&#8217;s official<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Met Office&#8217;s Sarah Holland said: &#8220;Basically, over the last few days, we&#8217;ve had fresh, strong winds from an easterly direction. As a result some of our air is coming from continental Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Helen Chivers of the Met Office said the origin of the smell had been narrowed down to the area of Europe roughly bordered by Holland, Germany and Belgium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, centuries of English xenophobia confirmed through one slightly pongy morning. London smells of manure? It&#8217;s those smelly Johnny Foreigners over the Channel! they never wash, you know. They sleep with their livestock, and use manure as perfume. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartlepoolunited.premiumtv.co.uk\/page\/MonkeyLegend\/0,,10326,00.html\">look like monkeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be writing to my MP demanding that we leave the EU forthwith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: The Met Office&#8217;s Sarah Holland said: &#8220;Basically, over the last few days, we&#8217;ve had fresh, strong winds from an easterly direction. As a result some of our air is coming from continental Europe.&#8221; &#8230;Helen Chivers of the Met &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/foreigners-smell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","tag-idiocy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}