{"id":1587,"date":"2011-04-22T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T10:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T10:08:34","slug":"wheres-pudesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/22\/wheres-pudesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s &#8216;Pudesy&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1588\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/leeds-sign-error-001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"460,276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pudesy B6154\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1588\" title=\"Pudesy B6154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001-300x180.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/leeds-sign-error-001.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Leeds\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds\">Leeds<\/a> folk know that the market town of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pudsey\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pudsey\">Pudsey<\/a> is famous for many things &#8211; not just the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pudsey\/\">Children In Need bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it certainly isn&#8217;t &#8216;Pudesy&#8217;, as spotted on a sign on Pudsey Road the other day. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\/report\/177761\">reported to the council <\/a>via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\/report\/177761\">Fix My Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a sign based error has happened.\u00a0There is a sign at Dudley Hill pointing to &#8216;Drighlinton&#8217;, presumably somewhere near Drighlin<strong>g<\/strong>ton, and there is the now-famous <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/7702913.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh &#8216;out-of-office&#8217; reply<\/a>, below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1589\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/_45162744_-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2.jpg?fit=416%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"416,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I&amp;#8217;m not in the office at the moment&amp;#8230;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2.jpg?fit=416%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1589\" title=\"I'm not in the office at the moment...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2-300x216.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2.jpg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/45162744_-2.jpg?w=416&amp;ssl=1 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\/report\/177761\" target=\"_blank\">Fix My Street<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/leeds\/2011\/apr\/19\/leeds-sign-spelling-mistake\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian.co.uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/7702913.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Leeds folk know that the market town of Pudsey is famous for many things &#8211; not just the\u00a0Children In Need bear. Anyway, it certainly isn&#8217;t &#8216;Pudesy&#8217;, as spotted on a sign on Pudsey Road the other day. It was reported to the council via\u00a0Fix My Street. This isn&#8217;t the first time a sign based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[98,273,384,1046,1146,1352,1755,2467,2468,3237],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-98","tag-april","tag-bbc-news","tag-england","tag-fix-my-street","tag-guardian","tag-leeds","tag-pudesy","tag-pudsey","tag-west-yorkshire","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-pB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}