{"id":521,"date":"2011-07-30T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/trains-get-an-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:26:02","slug":"trains-get-an-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/trains-get-an-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains get an upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very surprised to find I was seated in the &#8220;entertainment&#8221; carriage on my journey to Taunton today. Entertainment on long train journeys used to be provided by snogging teenagers or dribbling grannies, but now First Great Western has airline-style video screens on the seat backs. Mains sockets were also available at each seat for your phone-charging or kettle boiling pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>More Ryan air style, most of the content is paid (\u00a31.75), but there some free stuff so you can see what you&#8217;re going to get.<br \/>\nWell done train company!\u00a0 Can we have it on the tube?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-IMAG06703.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-IMAG06702.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-IMAG06733.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-IMAG06732.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very surprised to find I was seated in the &#8220;entertainment&#8221; carriage on my journey to Taunton today. Entertainment on long train journeys used to be provided by snogging teenagers or dribbling grannies, but now First Great Western has airline-style video screens on the seat backs. Mains sockets were also available at each seat for your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/trains-get-an-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trains get an upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[132,128],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-entertainment","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}