{"id":2330,"date":"2014-01-08T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T05:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:29:59","slug":"utopian-idealist-wins-the-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Utopian Idealist&#8221; wins the internets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Officials-act-after-woman-takes-bath-in-pothole-20140107\">an article on news24.com<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Officials act after woman takes bath in pothole<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/2636\/0c73c438c4ce46d083e8766ea5cd7c0d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comment from Utopian Idealist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s not a pothole, its a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/africa\/south-africa\/131220\/not-swimming-pool-fire-pool-zuma-nkandla-opulence-abuse-funds-booed\">fire pool<\/a>, to assist in fighting veld fires in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:787,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.news24.com\\\/SouthAfrica\\\/News\\\/Officials-act-after-woman-takes-bath-in-pothole-20140107&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20181210112733\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.news24.com\\\/SouthAfrica\\\/News\\\/Officials-act-after-woman-takes-bath-in-pothole-20140107&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 23:01:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 07:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 07:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.globalpost.com\\\/dispatch\\\/news\\\/regions\\\/africa\\\/south-africa\\\/131220\\\/not-swimming-pool-fire-pool-zuma-nkandla-opulence-abuse-funds-booed&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.globalpost.com\\\/dispatch\\\/news\\\/regions\\\/africa\\\/south-africa\\\/131220\\\/not-swimming-pool-fire-pool-zuma-nkandla-opulence-abuse-funds-booed&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an article on news24.com, &#8220;Officials act after woman takes bath in pothole&#8220;. Comment from Utopian Idealist: That&#8217;s not a pothole, its a fire pool, to assist in fighting veld fires in the area. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farting-around"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}