{"id":445,"date":"2009-10-07T01:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2009-10-07T01:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:11:40","slug":"debris-in-the-road-but-where-is-smallmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Debris in the Road &#8211; But Where is&nbsp;Smallmeal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Tuesday 6<sup>th<\/sup> October 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I retreated to the country last Friday, to participate in family life in a small village outside Bath. There is a mother and father and their son is my godson. Hurtling down the motorway, or rather not hurtling but blocked by filth, I suddenly thought: Smallmeal!\u00a0 This is the time on a Friday when the Bentley goes forth from the Brentford offices of the landfill or whatever for Massivebury, bearing the tiny scowling face of Smallmeal under that swirling mass of Lord Lichfield-style grey hair.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve mentioned that Massivebury is near Swindon; the main gates are but a stone\u2019s throw from a mean housing estate. But there is a longer, more scenic approach from the rear.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Well, no sign of the Bentley, which is probably for the best. I doubt that my nippy, perfectly-formed, official car, as it is known, could have taken on the Bentley and won. Instead there are endless notices lit up overhead, saying \u2018Slow down. Debris in Road.\u2019 On and on, they go. I am increasingly bemused. I see no sign of Smallmeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He must have been cleared out of the way earlier. They\u2019d forgotten to switch off the signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Tuesday 6th October 2009 \u00a0I retreated to the country last Friday, to participate in family life in a small village outside Bath. There is a mother and father and their son is my godson. Hurtling down the motorway, or rather not hurtling but blocked by filth, I suddenly thought: Smallmeal!\u00a0 This is the time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}