{"id":45262,"date":"2019-06-08T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45262"},"modified":"2019-06-08T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:30:50","slug":"on-the-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/on-the-cob\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty wet in Aberystwyth this morning. So, with plenty to read and a couple of computers in tow I caught the train to Pwllheli just to have a cup of tea. More than six hours of train ride for \u00a38.50 - and amazing views. Plus a train where the vast majority of train announcements were not in English - and nor was much of the conversation. Farage would have been deeply uncomfortable. I loved it. And I got the chance to take this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/on-the-cob\/screen-shot-2019-06-08-at-19-16-23\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23-550x393.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23-550x393.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23-420x300.png 420w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23-559x400.png 559w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-08-at-19.16.23.png 1888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, that is a colour photo. For the train buffs, it is Lyd heading for Porthmadog across the Cob at about 3pm this afternoon taken from the mainline train about a mile further north. Any fuzziness is down the quality of window cleaning by Trains for Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty wet in Aberystwyth this morning. So, with plenty to read and a couple of computers in tow I caught the train to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/on-the-cob\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}