{"id":136,"date":"2014-10-13T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-10-13T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:57:10","slug":"pretty-sure-this-isnt-what-boat-building-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/2014\/10\/13\/pretty-sure-this-isnt-what-boat-building-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Sure This Isn’t What “Boat Building” Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/g:plusone>

England, let’s chat.<\/p>\n

I know you’re an island nation with a rich naval history. You’ve been Queen of the seas longer than other nations have even existed. We’re all duly impressed with your historical mastery of the waves, I assure you.<\/p>\n

But while we understand your love affair with boats, having stone boats randomly protruding from buildings is just slightly odd.<\/p>\n

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Not one, but two boats. On a building. Nowhere near the river.<\/p><\/div>\n

Because it’d make sense to have boats decorating buildings alongside the river, especially the many boat sheds. But this building<\/a> is on Hobson Street<\/a>, nearly a half mile from the closest points on the river.<\/p>\n

\"boat\"

And it’s definitely the prow of a boat. It even has stone ropes and everything.<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe this building was originally boat-related. Maybe it’s just a random decoration. Maybe Weeping Angels are coming through and if we all stop watching, they’ll sail through the building and destroy us all.<\/p>\n

\"boat\"

The damned thing is even smiling.<\/p><\/div>\n

Either way I’m pretty sure “sailing on the high seas” doesn’t mean “from the first storey of an apartment building on Hobson Street”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England, let’s chat. I know you’re an island nation with a rich naval history. You’ve been Queen of the seas longer than other nations have even existed. We’re all duly impressed with your historical mastery of the waves, I assure you. But while we understand your love affair with boats, having stone boats randomly protruding … [Read more…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-kimberlychapman","post-136","format-standard","category-doctor-who-references","category-england-is-weird","category-random-imaginary-acts-of-violence","category-sailing-on-the-high-seas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}