{"id":1074,"date":"2007-07-16T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/07\/16\/sign-of-the-time\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:44:00","slug":"sign-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07071508.jpg\" \/><br \/>Trinity Church has always operated a no-smoking policy, but now in order to comply with the new law, appropriate signs are displayed at various points, like this one on the door of the choir vestry.<\/p>\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n<p>A man came into church and lit up a cigarette. There were mutterings, then a steward approached him and said &#8220;You cannot smoke here. Didn&#8217;t you see the sign?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man flicked ash across the carpet. &#8220;Ah ha,&#8221; he said, &#8220;Today is national smoking day and I can smoke wherever I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n<p>Just a dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Church has always operated a no-smoking policy, but now in order to comply with the new law, appropriate signs are displayed at various points, like this one on the door of the choir vestry. ******************* A man came into church and lit up a cigarette. There were mutterings, then a steward approached him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}