{"id":1021,"date":"2021-07-19T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-07-19T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:05:53","slug":"predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Predictable!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten days ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/?p=993\">this post<\/a> I suggested that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As the number of new cases in Scotland holds around the 3000 \u2013 4000 mark while England\u2019s numbers increase it seems only a matter of time until the First Minister proudly proclaims that we are no longer the worst kid on the block.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What appeared on Sunday?  I&#8217;d like to claim that I have the ability to see the future but, to be honest, this was as predictable as the sun rising, the tides coming in or more delays in the delivery of the ferries from Fergusons shipyard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021-644x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" width=\"483\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021-768x1220.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021-967x1536.jpg 967w, https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NS_Post_18072021.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days ago in this post I suggested that As the number of new cases in Scotland holds around the 3000 \u2013 4000 mark while England\u2019s numbers increase it seems only a matter of time until the First Minister proudly proclaims that we are no longer the worst kid on the block. What appeared on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/?p=1021\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Predictable!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetrue.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}