{"id":379,"date":"2009-05-19T07:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T07:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-05-14T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:16:24","slug":"two-stories-about-perthshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/two-stories-about-perthshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Two stories about Perthshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two stories about Perth today in the papers – both of which are horrendous.<\/p>\n

The first has been overlooked by the national news: Woman beat for seven hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A woman was beaten for seven hours by her partner, the neighbours at around midnight heard cries resembling shrieks from a horror film<\/q>. Neighbours were wakened by her screaming No, no. Stop.<\/q>.<\/p>\n

Thankfully one of them eventually phoned the police at 7:30am. Why the fuck it took one of them 7 hours hasn’t been explained.<\/p>\n

The other has reached the national news. Some cretins objecting to a bike race around Pitlochry spread tacks over the road on a downhill stretch. Hundreds of tires were punctured, not only on bikes but on an ambulance and police car supporting the race.<\/p>\n

The only local quoted in the Courier<\/cite><\/a> against the half day road closure.<\/p>\n

\nWe may not leave our homes for any essential items and, much more importantly, the whole community is prevented from attending the Sunday Christian services.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the roads would be closed and the residents \u2018restrained\u2019 if we were of other faiths or nationalities.<\/p>\n

I was under the impression that we were attempting to fight discrimination. Perhaps not if you are white and Christian and don\u2019t cycle.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a maroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two stories about Perth today in the papers – both of which are horrendous. The first has been overlooked by the national news: Woman beat for seven hours. A woman was beaten for seven hours by her partner, the neighbours at around midnight heard cries resembling shrieks from a horror film. Neighbours were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,51],"tags":[286,287,288,284,285],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-rant","tag-christian-paranoia","tag-deliverance","tag-get-off-moi-land","tag-perth","tag-pitlochry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}