{"id":5091,"date":"2014-11-11T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:25:26","slug":"man-wins-boring-competition-with-boring-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5091","title":{"rendered":"Man wins boring competition with boring entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selby District Council&#8217;s website is not one of your correspondent&#8217;s regular online haunts. However, last week&#8217;s news section of the site carries a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selby.gov.uk\/news_detail.asp?menuid=&amp;id=1975\">report<\/a> with exclusive spectacular news: a Mr Steve Wadsworth has won a competition to name the new Selby Leisure Centre, which is due to open in 2015, by naming it, erm, Selby Leisure Centre!<\/p>\n<p>There was even someone armed with a camera to record this historic event, whose like has probably not been equalled in that part of Yorkshire since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge\">Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/selby-competition-winner-300-px.jpg\" alt=\"photo of boring winner getting prize\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/selby-competition-winner-300-px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/selby-competition-winner-300-px-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchinterpreter.com\/index.html\">MJ Lee<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selby District Council&#8217;s website is not one of your correspondent&#8217;s regular online haunts. However, last week&#8217;s news section of the site carries a report with exclusive spectacular news: a Mr Steve Wadsworth has won a competition to name the new Selby Leisure Centre, which is due to open in 2015, by naming it, erm, Selby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,15],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","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=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}