{"id":867,"date":"2005-10-10T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/112894938934522856\/"},"modified":"2005-10-10T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T13:59:00","slug":"112894938934522856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/112894938934522856\/","title":{"rendered":"112894938934522856"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4327072.stm\">Blair government in &#8220;ill thought-out legislation&#8221; shocker!<\/a> Yep &#8211; once again a supposedly bold initiative is being dropped because they didn&#8217;t think it through properly &#8211; this time the pub smoking ban. Which for those of us who like a fag with our pints is good news, as we get a bit of a reprieve before the near-inevitable blanket ban on smoking in public places. Although quite why they couldn&#8217;t leave it to market forces, perhaps offering incentives to pubs along the lines of reduced licensing fees for those which voluntarily ban smoking, I have no idea&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blair government in &#8220;ill thought-out legislation&#8221; shocker! Yep &#8211; once again a supposedly bold initiative is being dropped because they didn&#8217;t think it through properly &#8211; this time the pub smoking ban. Which for those of us who like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/112894938934522856\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}