{"id":4699,"date":"2014-08-25T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2014-08-27T05:50:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:50:02","slug":"bristol-invents-the-bup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"Bristol invents the bup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol likes to regard itself as a place of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Bearing this inventive spirit in mind, contractors working in Old Market Street for Bristol City Council have invented a new public conveyance vehicle &#8211; the bup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/08\/bup_stop.jpg\" alt=\"image of bus stop featuring words Bup Stop\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/08\/bup_stop.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/08\/bup_stop-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Bristol City Council said: &#8220;We take the misspelling of road marking very seriously and will soon be appointing an expensive CONsultant to advise us of the best possible solution.&#8221; (<em>That quotation was made up, wasn&#8217;t it? Ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Council-workmen-Bristol-manage-misspell-word-bus\/story-22815082-detail\/story.html\">Bristol Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update 27\/08\/14:<\/em><\/strong> the orthographical gaffe was corrected yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Bristol-Bup-Stop-gaffe-fixed\/story-22829241-detail\/story.html\">according to the Bristol Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol likes to regard itself as a place of innovation. Bearing this inventive spirit in mind, contractors working in Old Market Street for Bristol City Council have invented a new public conveyance vehicle &#8211; the bup. A spokesperson for Bristol City Council said: &#8220;We take the misspelling of road marking very seriously and will soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17],"tags":[40,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}