{"id":5402,"date":"2015-01-17T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2015-01-17T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T12:20:37","slug":"no-sexual-partners-in-wigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"No sexual partners in Wigan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far my experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wigan\">Wigan<\/a> has been as the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-joes.com\/\">Uncle Joe&#8217;s Mint Balls<\/a> and the birthplace of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Formby,_Jr.\">George Formby<\/a>, as well as a stop on the railway journey up to my sister&#8217;s home in Darwen.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems that Wigan has another claim to fame: no sexual partners are available there if there&#8217;s any credence behind the front page from the Wigan Evening Post shown below. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/01\/wigan.jpg\" alt=\"newspaper front page with headline Man tries to have sex with postbox\" width=\"596\" height=\"599\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/01\/wigan.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/01\/wigan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/01\/wigan-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/01\/wigan-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The details of this attempted coupling can also be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wigantoday.net\/news\/local\/man-tried-to-have-sex-with-a-postbox-1-7053512\">read on Wigan Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/girlgeeks\">Morna Simpson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far my experience of Wigan has been as the home of Uncle Joe&#8217;s Mint Balls and the birthplace of George Formby, as well as a stop on the railway journey up to my sister&#8217;s home in Darwen. It now seems that Wigan has another claim to fame: no sexual partners are available there if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}