{"id":393,"date":"2005-11-22T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/11\/the-most-beautiful-fog-in-all-the-world\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T08:33:00","slug":"the-most-beautiful-fog-in-all-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/11\/the-most-beautiful-fog-in-all-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Beautiful Fog In All The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether air pollution is up or down, they say that living in London is the equivalent of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.londonair.org.uk\/london\/asp\/home.asp\" target=_blank>smoking two<\/a> cigarettes <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cerc.co.uk\/YourAir\/index.asp\" target=_blank>a day.<\/a> What they don&#8217;t say is that living in London is the equivalent of being on twenty years of Prosac. It&#8217;s the never-look-down attitude, millions of lives built upon shifting estuary sediment layers of denial. It&#8217;s &#8220;of course we would have gone years ago but we&#8217;ve a small place in <i>(small provincial spot anywhere in Europe)<\/i> we get away a couple of times a year&#8230;&#8221;  it&#8217;s &#8220;honestly there is <i>nothing to do<\/i> outside of town&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;frankly only the job that keeps me here&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>No. This is all tosh. London is a habit, a dangerous one. Money, endless churning ex-Empire self-aggrandisement, plus some bizarre belief in our own shit heap&#8217;s superiority over others equals a refusal to countenance the awful truth: that London is extremely bad for your health, and we are all hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, all those airborn particulates still make London fog the most beautiful fog in all the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/london_Nov_fog2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/london_Nov_fog3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/london_Nov_fog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether air pollution is up or down, they say that living in London is the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes a day. What they don&#8217;t say is that living in London is the equivalent of being on twenty years of Prosac. It&#8217;s the never-look-down attitude, millions of lives built upon shifting estuary sediment layers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}