{"id":765,"date":"2012-12-08T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=765"},"modified":"2014-11-01T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T11:22:40","slug":"bristol-politics-subtle-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Bristol politics &#8211; subtle comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first acts of <a href=\"http:\/\/bristol.gov.uk\/page\/george-ferguson-mayor-bristol\">Bristol&#8217;s recently elected mayor<\/a>, George Ferguson (whose best known foible is his <a href=\"http:\/\/lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/06\/architect-george-ferguson-cbe.html\">sartorial predilection for red trousers<\/a>), was to rename the Council House (<em>aka Counts Louse to Bristolians. Ed.<\/em>), transforming it into City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>A local wag has now amended the new sign outside the Counts Louse to reflect the change of regime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/12\/fergo_city_hall.jpg\" alt=\"sign at Counts Louse showing pedestrian in red trousers\" width=\"479\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2012\/12\/fergo_city_hall.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2012\/12\/fergo_city_hall-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first acts of Bristol&#8217;s recently elected mayor, George Ferguson (whose best known foible is his sartorial predilection for red trousers), was to rename the Council House (aka Counts Louse to Bristolians. Ed.), transforming it into City Hall. A local wag has now amended the new sign outside the Counts Louse to reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[40,14,20],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-dialect","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}