{"id":20868,"date":"2018-07-19T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20868"},"modified":"2018-07-19T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:56:33","slug":"what-are-the-little-metal-capsules-sometimes-seen-in-the-gutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20868","title":{"rendered":"What are the little metal capsules sometimes seen in the gutter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18071902.jpg\" alt=\"metal capsules\" \/><br \/>\nI noticed this shiny little capsule, discarded in a gutter in Abingdon, and often see a lot more of them at a location near where I work, just down the road from an abattoir. The capsules release Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, to whip up cream. It is apparently legal to possess them for whipping purposes in England and Wales but it is illegal to sell to anyone under 18 if you think they\u2019re likely to inhale them. They were made illegal with other previously so-called legal highs in May 2016. Maybe the abattoir employees inhale them at lunch time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this shiny little capsule, discarded in a gutter in Abingdon, and often see a lot more of them at a location near where I work, just down the road from an abattoir. The capsules release Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, to whip up cream. It is apparently legal to possess them for whipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20868","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=20868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}