{"id":2033,"date":"2014-11-30T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbeylandsresidents.org.uk\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2017-11-24T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:31:58","slug":"if-youve-got-nothing-nice-to-say-say-it-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/if-youve-got-nothing-nice-to-say-say-it-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"If you’ve got nothing nice to say say it on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or so the old adage goes. But there’s so much more that you can do on the internet, such as find cute pictures of cats, buy clothes only to return them with the next post, get yourself an improbably good looking date only to find that you’ve got yourself entangled with a Russian extortionist.<\/p>\n

Anyways, whilst I was combing\u00a0the incredibly riveting Government Procurement website for work, I stumbled on an outrageous proposal for a feasibility study – by a Council out west – to convert a playground into a car park. Whatever next?<\/p>\n

Somehow the prospect of converting car parks to much needed housing seems unthinkable round here, where garden grabbing is legion and the Council a major stakeholder.<\/p>\n

Beaches into car parks seems more plausible though, just think of the benefits for residents who complaineth far too much about\u00a0smells and seaweed.<\/p>\n

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Or so the old adage goes. But there’s so much more that you can do on the internet, such as find cute pictures of cats, buy clothes only to return them with the next post, get yourself an improbably good looking date only to find that you’ve got yourself entangled with a Russian extortionist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2014\/11\/spoof-contract.png?fit=969%2C857&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/concrete-gardens-is-a-car-parking-coming-to-a-green-space-near-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":2033,"position":0},"title":"Concrete gardens – is a car park coming to a green space near you?","author":"templar","date":"March 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Our friends over at Coosgreen, have tipped us off that the long awaited consultation on car parking in North Berwick has begun. 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