{"id":719,"date":"2012-10-03T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-10-03T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:22:43","slug":"off-with-the-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/10\/03\/off-with-the-fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Off with the fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Drabble writing in <em>The Spectator<\/em> in 2011 explained: \u201cThe Potteries are one of the strangest regions in the British Isles&#8221;. It&#8217;s quite true. There are even people who still believe in fairies in Stoke-upon-Trent town. I went into the newsagents to get a paper today, before going to <a href=\"http:\/\/allotmentgb.blogspot.co.uk\/\">the allotment<\/a>. There was a pensioner in there, obviously well known to the newsagent (who had a bemused smile on his face), telling the newsagent about: &#8220;the hob-elfs, they call &#8217;em \u2014 they has little arrows, tiny ones, with stone points&#8230; they fires &#8217;em at you&#8230; you look out for &#8217;em, they&#8217;re sharp&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Drabble writing in The Spectator in 2011 explained: \u201cThe Potteries are one of the strangest regions in the British Isles&#8221;. It&#8217;s quite true. There are even people who still believe in fairies in Stoke-upon-Trent town. I went into the newsagents to get a paper today, before going to the allotment. There was a pensioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}