{"id":536,"date":"2019-06-26T20:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2019-06-26T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:02:17","slug":"welcome-to-ayrshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/26\/welcome-to-ayrshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Ayrshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was great today to do the train thing and walk with Janet all the way &#8211; although my knee knows it now. The first thing I saw on crossing the county border was the beautiful hazy outline of distant hills, and this&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0447-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;evidently we are better at the economics of getting stuff than we are at the economics of getting rid of stuff in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every smallest action we do affects other people who are not directly involved. We dirty the air, we make noise, we cause happiness and unhappiness without knowing it. We can&#8217;t help being part of the world, part of Europe. I can tell when there&#8217;s an anticyclone with a south east wind, because of the tang of nitrogen oxides in the air. But there&#8217;s no economic incentive to stop our harmful &#8216;externalities&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God help us to live as if<br>other people matter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great today to do the train thing and walk with Janet all the way &#8211; although my knee knows it now. The first thing I saw on crossing the county border was the beautiful hazy outline of distant hills, and this&#8230; &#8230;evidently we are better at the economics of getting stuff than we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/26\/welcome-to-ayrshire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Ayrshire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}