{"id":6504,"date":"2015-10-14T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:08:20","slug":"spiritual-leader-moonlights-as-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual leader moonlights as police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the captions on photographs in the local press can be a real education.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, thanks to those dedicated people who write captions for articles on the Bristol Post website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Lidl-poised-open-new-supermarket-Bristol\/story-27968047-detail\/story.html\">I now know what a branch of discount retailer Lidl looks like, although I shall have to travel to Paignton to see the real thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, far greater secrets can be revealed by photo captions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/police-superintendent-praised-Dalai-Lama\/story-27968919-detail\/story.html\">An article in yesterday&#8217;s Bristol Post revealed<\/a> that, unknown to the rest of the world, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/\">His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a>, is actually a police officer in Avon &amp; Somerset Constabulary, as shown by the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/10\/dalai_lama-600x573.png\" alt=\"caption on image reads Former police superintendent Kevin Instance receiving his framed letter of praise from the Dalai Lama\" width=\"600\" height=\"573\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/10\/dalai_lama.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/10\/dalai_lama-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His Holiness must have found some body-altering drugs during his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2015\/jun\/28\/patti-smith-dalai-lama-glastonbury-2015-pyramid-stage\">visit to the Glastonbury Festival<\/a>! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the captions on photographs in the local press can be a real education. For instance, thanks to those dedicated people who write captions for articles on the Bristol Post website, I now know what a branch of discount retailer Lidl looks like, although I shall have to travel to Paignton to see the real [&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-6504","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\/6504","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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}