{"id":15481,"date":"2014-04-30T00:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15481"},"modified":"2014-04-30T00:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:59:38","slug":"the-art-of-understatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15481","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Understatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, East Midlands airport has been closed today because a cargo plane suffered a \u201clanding gear failure\u201d. The picture below shows the nature of the \u201cfailure\u201d.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"The landing gear failure - nowhere near the actual plane\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/landing_gear_failure.jpg\" alt=\"The landing gear failure - nowhere near the actual plane\" width=\"524\" height=\"296\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit like that episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob\u2019s brother has rigged a dam with dynamite, and \u2013 with Bob hanging on to one of the charges \u2013 says, as he prepares to push the plunger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You might hear a slight ringing in your ears \u2013 fortunately, you\u2019ll be nowhere near them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, East Midlands airport has been closed today because a cargo plane suffered a \u201clanding gear failure\u201d. The picture below shows the nature of the \u201cfailure\u201d. It\u2019s a bit like that episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob\u2019s brother has rigged a dam with dynamite, and \u2013 with Bob hanging on to one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}