{"id":1610,"date":"2005-06-05T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1610.html"},"modified":"2014-01-18T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T19:53:13","slug":"the-gum-fence-the-final-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/06\/05\/the-gum-fence-the-final-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gum Fence, The Final Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Followers of the Gum Fence Saga will recall that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/abi\/archives\/2005\/01\/12\/the_gum_fence\/\">Episode one<\/a>, your heroine found <em>over three hundred<\/em> pieces of chewing gum stuck on the points of the wrought iron fence by her employer&#8217;s car park.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/abi\/archives\/2005\/03\/11\/the_gum_fence_episode_2\/\">Episode two<\/a> found our narrator with delusions of grandeur bemused by the activities of said employer&#8217;s fence painters, who appeared to have primed over the gum rather than removing it.  I&#8217;m sure you, dear readers, joined our viewpoint character of very little real significance in wondering what would happen next.<\/p>\n<p>I can now confirm that our most cynical expectations have been confirmed.  They painted over the gum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/images\/2005\/04\/gum31.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 19 April 2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followers of the Gum Fence Saga will recall that in Episode one, your heroine found over three hundred pieces of chewing gum stuck on the points of the wrought iron fence by her employer&#8217;s car park. Episode two found our narrator with delusions of grandeur bemused by the activities of said employer&#8217;s fence painters, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/06\/05\/the-gum-fence-the-final-chapter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gum Fence, The Final Chapter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[1645,1641],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh_a_love_letter","tag-fences","tag-gum-fence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}