{"id":168,"date":"2005-07-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=168"},"modified":"2005-07-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T02:30:00","slug":"ugly-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/07\/07\/ugly-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/index_13569.html\">London blasts: death toll rises to 37<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a horrible day. The first thing I heard when I woke up was the news about the attacks in London. My first thought was for my friends and acquaintances there. Everyone&#8217;s accounted for though so that was a ray of light.<\/p>\n<p>Even managed to get a hold of my lovely ex-boyfriend there (yes I said lovely, it was an amicable breakup \ud83d\ude42 ) and found he was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Still and all, and I don&#8217;t mean to place this in comparison with 9\/11 but today had the same sort of feel. Almost. I mean, all I wanted to do was watch continual coverage of the aftermath and find my friends but I had to work. And as I went about my day I constantly ran into people who didn&#8217;t even mention it. I don&#8217;t mean at the paper because of course there was discussion about it there, but as I was out and about in town. It was like any other day with almost everyone I came into contact with.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to scream at them that this terrible thing happened.<\/p>\n<p>I did overhear a couple people talking about the attacks as if they were neighbours standing at their fence sharing the latest gossip. One woman said, &#8220;I bet it was the Irish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sat there dumbfounded that she would say such an ignorant, ridiculous thing. She was another one I wanted to scream at and shake her senseless.<\/p>\n<p>Today was so surreal. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my thoughts are with Londoners as they recover from this ugly day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London blasts: death toll rises to 37 What a horrible day. The first thing I heard when I woke up was the news about the attacks in London. My first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}