{"id":5136,"date":"2015-06-03T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:36:33","slug":"bunny-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5136","title":{"rendered":"Rabitting on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had what educators call a teachable moment yesterday whilst interviewing a gardener (which makes me sound posher than I am, but if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterboots.com\/gb\/en_gb\/search\/?q=balmoral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunters<\/a> fit\u2026). &#8220;I see you around on your bike,&#8221; he said after we&#8217;d discussed how much Monsanto Roundup should be sprayed to stun but not kill\u00a0bunnies. After we&#8217;d established that yes I am the village cyclist, he launched into a mini diatribe against cyclists who wear &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.notanothercyclingforum.net\/index.php?topic=347.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">those ear things<\/a>&#8221; and weave all over the road. Needless to say I cleared my throat.<\/p>\n<p>Had a bit of fun watching his eyes slightly bulge at the thought he may have just insulted a potential client, but I&#8217;m not cruel enough to enjoy the squirming of even tradesmen, so I let him off the hook by agreeing that yes, it looks like a crazy thing to do, before explaining why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notanothercyclingforum.net\/index.php?topic=467.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it isn&#8217;t<\/a> any madder than spraying glyphosate around and hoping the local hoppers regard it as nectar.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it turns out his anecdotal ire was based on an apparently misbehaving pedestrian, who in the interests of comity I agreed should also be sprayed with Roundup much like unruly weeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bunnyrolling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5139\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bunnyrolling.jpg\" alt=\"bunnyrolling\" width=\"477\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bunnyrolling.jpg 477w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bunnyrolling-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had what educators call a teachable moment yesterday whilst interviewing a gardener (which makes me sound posher than I am, but if the Hunters fit\u2026). &#8220;I see you around on your bike,&#8221; he said after we&#8217;d discussed how much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}