{"id":15684,"date":"2007-07-30T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/07\/30\/hello-fellow-citizens\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"hello-fellow-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/07\/30\/hello-fellow-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, fellow citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there. I had a stressy week (cf: previous post). That&#8217;s all resolved for now, though, and I had a fun weekend. I frolicked in Glasgow on Friday, finished Chapter Five of <em>Finitude<\/em> on Saturday then played videogames into the wee hours, and Sunday I had high tea at the Balmoral Hotel with my friend Martin from Canada (because it&#8217;s fun to do things with visitors to your hometown that you would never do otherwise).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And, just because pictures make this more interesting, on my way to catch the Glasgow bus on Friday, I passed a flaming rubbish bin. Like everyone else walking past, I stared at it with that perplexed &#8220;This is not normal, this does not happen&#8221; look. The others kept walking, but, being my father&#8217;s son, I realised that &#8220;somebody else&#8221; wasn&#8217;t necessarily going to do anything, and I phoned 999. By the time I made it to the bus stop, a fire truck came, and several men set about giving the bin a thorough hosing-down.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1033\/hello-fellow-citizens0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Firemen put out a burning rubbish bin.\" title=\"Firemen put out a burning rubbish bin.\">I want a pin that says I am a good citizen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1033\/hello-fellow-citizens1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there. I had a stressy week (cf: previous post). That&#8217;s all resolved for now, though, and I had a fun weekend. I frolicked in Glasgow on Friday, finished Chapter Five of Finitude on Saturday then played videogames into the wee hours, and Sunday I had high tea at the Balmoral Hotel with my friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}