{"id":1801,"date":"2013-11-24T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T08:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T21:39:32","slug":"auckland-sometimes-you-disgust-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Sometimes You Disgust Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV1.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Parade 2013\" class=\"wp-image-1802\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV1-150x23.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV1-300x46.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV1-500x77.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I just went to the 2013 <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.santaparade.co.nz\/\">Farmers Santa Parade<\/a> in Auckland, the 80th such event and what a day. Great weather and great fun. The music the crowds the kids it was all great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5723\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3.png 1200w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3-300x158.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3-250x131.png 250w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is wrong with you. You get a great day out, you don&#8217;t have to pay to enter, the kids love it and this time around even all the trains were free. For Pete&#8217;s sake you could pack a lunch, take your kids for a ride on the train and occupy the whole of Sunday afternoon for nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what do you do in return, you litter and my god do you litter&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Santa Rubbish\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Rubbish\" class=\"wp-image-1804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3-150x66.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SantaRubbishV3-500x221.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Come on Auckland I know other cities are like this but we are better than this&#8230;&#8230;.. aren&#8217;t we ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to the 2013 Farmers Santa Parade in Auckland, the 80th such event and what a day. Great weather and great fun. The music the crowds the kids it was all great. And then there was this: What is wrong with you. You get a great day out, you don&#8217;t have to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[114,60,225,224,127],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tpblog","tag-auckland","tag-blog","tag-environment","tag-rubbish","tag-santa-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}