{"id":234,"date":"2007-08-13T05:17:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2007-08-13T05:17:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T09:17:23","slug":"234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/234\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When a motorist in Ipswich, Suffolk [UK], was given a parking ticket by a traffic warden, one fine day in 1972, he said: &#8220;I had a rhinoceros with me &#8212; did you expect me to carry it?&#8221;<br \/>\nLater, in the local magistrates&#8217; court, he explained that he was a sculptor and the rhinoceros was a 30lb steel model, which he produced as an exhibit to the Bench. He told the magistrates that he was delivering the rhino to a shop, and denied a parking offence. The Bench took is point and dismissed the summons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fenton Bresler, <em>Beastly Law<\/em> (Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David &#038; Charles Publishers; 1986).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a motorist in Ipswich, Suffolk [UK], was given a parking ticket by a traffic warden, one fine day in 1972, he said: &#8220;I had a rhinoceros with me &#8212; did you expect me to carry it?&#8221; Later, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/234\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}