{"id":18261,"date":"2015-09-19T22:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2015-09-19T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T21:24:59","slug":"only-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18261","title":{"rendered":"Only in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are going to <a title=\"Wrong-way M60 drivers to be prosecuted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-34301982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecute dozens of drivers who drove the wrong way on the M60<\/a> slip road near Sale in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18261-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/m60wrongway.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/m60wrongway.flv\">https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/m60wrongway.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, <a title=\"No prosecutions for drivers who went wrong way down motorway slip road\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/granada\/update\/2015-09-18\/no-prosecutions-for-drivers-who-went-wrong-way-down-motorway-slip-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV reports that they AREN\u2019T being prosecuted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sufficient to point out that they are all twats, and the fact that it happened in Manchester totally fits in with a police spokesman\u2019s comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The laws of the road are there for a reason, which is to protect motorists and people need to realise that they cannot do what they want, when they want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last line sums up the problem with our roads today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are going to prosecute dozens of drivers who drove the wrong way on the M60 slip road near Sale in Greater Manchester. On the other hand, ITV reports that they AREN\u2019T being prosecuted. It\u2019s sufficient to point out that they are all twats, and the fact that it happened in Manchester totally fits in [&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":[100,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-bad-drivers","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\/18261","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=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}