Reading the following article on the BBC website concerning yesterday afternoon’s rioting in London, I came accross these paragraphs which\u00c2\u00a0perfectly\u00c2\u00a0illustrate British Character:<\/p>\n
As protesters surged, a succession of windows were smashed and demonstrators flooded into the entrance.<\/p>\n
Security guards scattered and the handful of police inside were completely overrun. As the police tried to stop them, protestors clicked a battery of cameras in their faces.<\/p>\n
A few yards away, in surreal calm, guests carried on eating in the adjacent Pizza Express.<\/p>\n
It was a bizarre sight inside the building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The full article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reading the following article on the BBC website concerning yesterday afternoon’s rioting in London, I came accross these paragraphs which\u00c2\u00a0perfectly\u00c2\u00a0illustrate British Character: As protesters surged, a succession of windows were smashed and demonstrators flooded into the entrance. Security guards scattered and the handful of police inside were completely overrun. As the police tried to stop … Continue reading “British Phlegm illustrated”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}