{"id":9641,"date":"2019-05-19T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9641"},"modified":"2019-05-19T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:22:53","slug":"observer-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9641\/","title":{"rendered":"Observer observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written before<\/a> about Britain being a country where hi-viz vests have proliferated among a bewildering array of jobsworths with official-sounding titles but who do none of the work traditionally associated with such attire.<\/p>\n<p>The photo below is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTPmedia1\/status\/1129802241999872001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screenshot<\/a> from the chaos that ensued when Tommy Robinson turned up to campaign in Oldham over the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer.jpg 863w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer-768x1068.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Legal-Observer-736x1024.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have the foggiest idea what a legal observer is, who appoints them, and why they would be wearing a hi-viz vest on the streets of Britain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about Britain being a country where hi-viz vests have proliferated among a bewildering array of jobsworths with official-sounding titles but who do none of the work traditionally associated with such attire. The photo below is a screenshot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9641\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9643,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions\/9643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}