{"id":1044,"date":"2010-01-06T23:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-01-06T23:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:29:41","slug":"absolutley-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/absolutley-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1045\" href=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/absolutley-necessary\/img_0108\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1045\" title=\"Metrocentre\" src=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_0108-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been an interesting week so far with the crazy snow while working in the Metrocentre; it has shown me that there are some crazy people out there.  When the most people woke up this morning they would have seen the TV news, listened to the radio or read in the newspapers \u201cDo not travel unless absolutely necessary\u201d.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong I have a business to run and for me to hit my targets I need people to hit the shopping centre and buy stuff.  The number of people that had turned up to ask \u201chow do I get in touch with customer services\u201d and \u201chow do I check the balance on my phone\u201d if not exactly what I would call \u201cnecessary\u201d.  The prize of the day however goes to a guy that traveled 25 miles from Hexham to the Metrocentre to buy a screen protector for his mobile phone before heading back to the car park to drive home.<br \/>\nCertainly not \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting week so far with the crazy snow while working in the Metrocentre; it has shown me that there are some crazy people out there. When the most people woke up this morning they would have seen the TV news, listened to the radio or read in the newspapers \u201cDo not travel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/absolutley-necessary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Absolutely Necessary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-uksnow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}