{"id":9458,"date":"2013-08-04T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9458"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:52:41","slug":"visitor-from-a-bygone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9458","title":{"rendered":"Visitor from a bygone age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason (the detail is unimportant) HSBC has written to all of the diplomatic institutions it currently serves saying, within its right, they they have a whopping 60 days to find another organisation to do their banking for them.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Silver, head of the Consular Corps, which represents consuls in the UK, said: \u2018HSBC\u2019s decision has created havoc&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Havoc, Bernard?<\/p>\n<p>Well let&#8217;s be thankful that Mr Silver&#8217;s normal stress levels probably don&#8217;t extend beyond handling the somewhat tricky &#8216;milk or lemon&#8217;, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Caution, contains gratuitous Daily Mail link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/money\/news\/article-2384003\/Consulates-Vatican-chaos-HSBC-tells-bank.html#ixzz2azp1Ctuw\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/money\/news\/article-2384003\/Consulates-Vatican-chaos-HSBC-tells-bank.html#ixzz2azp1Ctuw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason (the detail is unimportant) HSBC has written to all of the diplomatic institutions it currently serves saying, within its right, they they<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9458","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\/9458","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=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}