{"id":1552,"date":"2015-06-21T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2015-06-22T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:43:40","slug":"the-old-and-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"The old and the new"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"The old and the new\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1552\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>The elevated section of the M4 motorway virtually touches the boundary fence of our daughter&#8217;s garden in Brentford, and underneath runs the incredibly busy A4 road.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a constant noise of traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet there in the garden there grows a wonderful white rose bush, ignoring the traffic noise and fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Looking east from the garden you can see the Edwardian houses of York Road and a huge advertising poster fixed on an old tower block, there\u00a0to catch the eyes of the motorists approaching London on the M4.\u00a0\u00a0 And it give us the warning that we are nearly there after the long drive from Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>Just peeping out from behind the poster you can see the new tower\u00a0block and the cranes still busy building more and more flats in the area.\u00a0\u00a0 The old and the new indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1554\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x.jpg\" alt=\"Dscf1288x\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dscf1288x-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elevated section of the M4 motorway virtually touches the boundary fence of our daughter&#8217;s garden in Brentford, and underneath runs the incredibly busy A4 road.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a constant noise of traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet there in the garden there grows a wonderful white rose bush, ignoring the traffic noise and fumes. Looking east from the&#8230;<\/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-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}