{"id":3905,"date":"2010-10-13T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2010-10-13T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:05:44","slug":"size-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Size doesn&#8217;t matter, neither does distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the arbiter of truth and decency, The Daily Mail, one of Andrew and Fergie&#8217;s offspring has pranged her BMW.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail tells us that the crunch occurred at the Hyde Park Corner roundabout which is &#8216;yards from the grounds of Buckingham Palace \u00e2\u20ac\u201c home to her grandmother the Queen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3906\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/DailyMailFiasco8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3906\" title=\"DailyMailFiasco8\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/DailyMailFiasco8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DailyMailFiasco8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DailyMailFiasco8.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click for the big picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to various mapping software, the distance from Hyde Park Corner to the nearest portion of the grounds of Buckingham Palace is 1 mile.<\/p>\n<p>The distance to the front gate of Buck House is 1.2 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I suppose 1 mile is simply a matter of &#8216;yards&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the Daily Mail reporting that the Chilean miners have been rescued from a hole &#8216;yards from the surface&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And that this planet had a near miss with the moon which passed &#8216;yards&#8217; away, last night.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could leave the Daily Mail alone, but it&#8217;s like a nasty rash &#8211; just has to be scratched.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1320054\/Princess-Beatrice-car-crash-horror-BMW-smashed-bus-coach-near-Buckingham-Palace.html#ixzz12EsPmCM3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the arbiter of truth and decency, The Daily Mail, one of Andrew and Fergie&#8217;s offspring has pranged her BMW. The Daily Mail tells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}