{"id":562,"date":"2005-09-30T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=562"},"modified":"2005-09-30T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T19:23:00","slug":"tips-for-the-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Tips for the Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite themes is how there is no such thing as the &#8220;good old days&#8221; &#8211; senior members of society have been complaining about the manners of youth not being up to their standards ever since the first <em> Homo sapiens sapiens <\/em>thought she could turn a strip of leather into a neat little bikini.<\/p>\n<p>So some suggestions on behaviour on a bus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;* Sit with your limbs straight, and do not with your legs describe an angle of 45, thereby occupying the room of two persons.<\/p>\n<p>* Do not spit on the straw. You are not in a hogsty but in an omnibus travelling in a country which boasts of its refinement.<\/p>\n<p>* Behave respectfully to females and put not an upprotected lass to the blush, because she cannot escape from your brutality.<\/p>\n<p>* If you bring a dog, let him be small and be confined by a string.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Want to guess the date?<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Times <\/em>of January 30 1826, via <i>Time Out<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I find the class issues of this interesting, given the source. Did readers of <i>The Times<\/i>, or at least those assumed to read <i>The Times<\/i> travel on omnibuses at all? And wouldn&#8217;t they have been assumed to know how to behave? Was this perhaps meant for the servants? Not having the original context there&#8217;s no way of knowing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/history\" rel=\"tag\">History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite themes is how there is no such thing as the &#8220;good old days&#8221; &#8211; senior members of society have been complaining about the manners of youth not being up to their standards ever since the first Homo sapiens sapiens thought she could turn a strip of leather into a neat little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}