{"id":2904,"date":"2011-04-11T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2018-04-15T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T14:04:25","slug":"strange-days-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/strange-days-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Days Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories from the Cambs Times defy rational explanation. Both involve Cambridgeshire Police.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambstimes.co.uk\/news\/man_released_without_charge_after_van_load_of_cannabis_plants_ends_up_in_fenland_river_1_861510\" target=\"new\">A camper van load of cannabis plants ends up in the river<\/a>, but the owner is in the clear, despite evidence of a crime having been committed.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambstimes.co.uk\/news\/fenland_businessman_fights_to_regain_control_of_the_pub_police_have_banned_him_from_going_anywhere_near_1_860217\" target=\"new\">A platoon of police<\/a> wrestle a man to the ground, spray him, and evict him from his own pub, despite no crime having been committed.<\/p>\n<p>Where do we stand on this? Where is the firm ground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories from the Cambs Times defy rational explanation. Both involve Cambridgeshire Police. 1. A camper van load of cannabis plants ends up in the river, but the owner is in the clear, despite evidence of a crime having been committed. 2. A platoon of police wrestle a man to the ground, spray him, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/strange-days-indeed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange Days Indeed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-radio-cambridgeshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}