{"id":218,"date":"2013-02-21T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-02-21T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:34:20","slug":"london-buses-paying-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/london-buses-paying-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"London Buses Paying Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seldom use buses in London, but this morning I needed to and thought it was a great excuse to try my new bus stop app. Got to the stop and the app said 2 minutes for the bus. Bus arrived on time and I tried to pay the \u00a32.40 minium fair in cash with a \u00a310 note. The bus driver looked at this tenner and said &#8220;what&#8217;s that, you can&#8217;t use that&#8221; and told me to get off the bus and get change. <\/p>\n<p>Armed with a cup of tea and three pound coins, I checked the app for the next bus, 7 minutes. When the bus arrived I put on the tray the three pound coins for my \u00a32.40 fair. The bus driver said &#8220;you have to be joking, we don&#8217;t carry change.&#8221;\u00a0 Keep the change was my reply. <\/p>\n<p>Now where did I put my oyster?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seldom use buses in London, but this morning I needed to and thought it was a great excuse to try my new bus stop app. Got to the stop and the app said 2 minutes for the bus. Bus arrived on time and I tried to pay the \u00a32.40 minium fair in cash with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-london","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}