{"id":516,"date":"2009-06-24T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-06-24T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:48:52","slug":"revolving-drinking-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/revolving-drinking-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolving, Drinking, Boat."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The
The Boat still on the tyne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been gone since the 10th of Aug 2008 and lets be honest with ourselves no body cares one little bit.\u00a0 10 months without the \u201cBoat\u201d on the Newcastle\/Gateshead Quay Side and the tyne looks like a better place without it.<\/p>\n

I was there on the day that it was removed from the tyne an event that lots of people where there to see but I thought it was about time to remind you all how much better the place looks with the revolving dance floor monstrosity of a night club on a boat gone.<\/p>\n

\"The
The princess being removed from the Tyne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have two memory\u2019s of being on the Boat, the first was a 30th birthday night out with a group of now work colleagues that at the time I didn\u2019t work with.\u00a0 It was an drunken evening that involved two incidents.\u00a0 The first an inflatable naked girl that we insisted the Birthday boy carry with him the whole night.\u00a0 She actually got the most attention of any girl in the night club that night.\u00a0 Crowd surfing on the revolving dance floor getting us to the front of every queue at the bar before she was sent home a little too drunk and deflated.<\/p>\n

\"The
The princess being removed from the Tyne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second incident was one of the lads on the night out; tripping over the chain railings that acted at barriers to stop people crossing the road at unsafe points along the Newcastle side of the quay side.\u00a0 He hit the ground teeth, face and arm first.\u00a0 After \u00bd a pint of whisky to numb the pain he was in, we headed onto the boat.\u00a0 The next morning I woke up on his sofa and had to task of helping him get ready for work.\u00a0 Drowning his pain with whisky while I had to help with his tie due to damaged arm.\u00a0 Then he was off to work, pissed, in pain and two teeth short of a mouth full. Fun times.<\/p>\n

\"With
With out the boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I would love to hear any stories you have from being on the boat if for no other reason that to remind us all why it\u2019s a good think that it is gone.\u00a0 If you think I\u2019m wrong and that the tyne looked like a better place with the boat there let me know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been gone since the 10th of Aug 2008 and lets be honest with ourselves no body cares one little bit.\u00a0 10 months without the \u201cBoat\u201d on the Newcastle\/Gateshead Quay Side and the tyne looks like a better place without it. I was there on the day that it was removed from the tyne an … Continue reading Revolving, Drinking, Boat.<\/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":[6,9],"tags":[299,300,423,444],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-rant","tag-newcastle-upon","tag-newcastle-upon-tyne","tag-the-boat","tag-tuxedo-princess"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}