{"id":307,"date":"2007-02-23T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-02-23T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:51:00","slug":"local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n case you haven’t caught up with it yet, there’s a hilarious response to this story<\/a> from Cumbria’s Westmorland Gazette<\/span> published back in January. The comments thread takes on a life of its own, but first the news:<\/p>\n

Chair destroyed<\/span>
By Andrew Daniels
Read Comments (74)<\/p>\n

AN OFFICE chair was destroyed after it was set on fire on the grassy area, off Maude Street, Kendal, this afternoon (Friday).<\/p>\n

Fire crews from Kendal attended along with police.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the fire and rescue service said: “A delinquent set fire to an office chair in the middle of a grassy area and it was extinguished using one hose jet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 74 comments<\/span> really are priceless<\/span>…<\/p>\n

The chair knew the risks. Gang Warfare in Kendal is rife, and when you choose a side, you gotta be down with the risks.<\/p>\n

I think it high time the Westmorland Gazette<\/span> had something newsworthy to print: perhaps a drowned shopping trolley in the Kent or a discarded piece of mint cake found on the cobbled streets of Kendal.<\/p>\n

This story has upset me so much I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep tonight – I work with office chairs very closely on a daily basis and they’ve always treated me well and to hear stories like this makes me sick to my stomach.<\/p>\n

If your government continues to hold our agents of freedom illegally in detention camps, other chairs will meet the same fate as this one.<\/p>\n

Ergonomic disasters of this magnitude were last seen during the fall of Rome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last laugh to the editor<\/span> though:<\/p>\n

This has been our most-viewed story for nearly a week now. Three chairs for local news!<\/p>\n

Mike Glover
Editor\/Publisher<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t caught up with it yet, there’s a hilarious response to this story from Cumbria’s Westmorland Gazette published back in January. The comments thread takes on a life of its own, but first the news: Chair destroyedBy Andrew DanielsRead Comments (74) AN OFFICE chair was destroyed after it was set on fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}