{"id":483,"date":"2006-10-02T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=483"},"modified":"2006-10-02T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T21:37:32","slug":"feeling-sheepish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Feeling sheepish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rail firm to tackle overcrowding by taking out seats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Willis and agencies<br \/>\nMonday    October   2, 2006<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">Guardian Unlimited<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Animal rights groups today expressed concern at plans to ease overcrowding on busy commuter trains by removing seats from carriages to create more space for standing.South West Trains will carry out refurbishments [sic] on almost 500 cattle trucks, replacing more than one-fifth of the seats with extra hoofholds and creating so-called perches. [&#8230;]\u00a0 A recent report identified sheep in London and the south-east as the least satisfied in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/transport\/Story\/0,,1885887,00.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Baaa! Baaa! MoooooooOOOoooo!<\/p>\n<p>A veterinarian speaks: What do you think of western <strong>civilization<\/strong>? I think it   would be a good idea.<br \/>\nDa dum!<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, I&#8217;ve been enveloped by a cloud of smug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail firm to tackle overcrowding by taking out seats Paul Willis and agencies Monday October 2, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Animal rights groups today expressed concern at plans to ease overcrowding on busy commuter trains by removing seats from carriages to create more space for standing.South West Trains will carry out refurbishments [sic] on almost 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}