{"id":3736,"date":"2025-08-17T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:54:41","slug":"normal-town-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3736","title":{"rendered":"NORMAL TOWN POET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My hometown of Didcot, Oxon (formerly Berks) was identified as the most normal town in the U.K. according to the BBC and researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/normaltown.png?resize=640%2C662&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/normaltown.png?w=693&amp;ssl=1 693w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/normaltown.png?resize=290%2C300&amp;ssl=1 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/normaltown.png?resize=676%2C699&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314.amp?\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314.amp?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which makes me a Normal Town Poet&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown of Didcot, Oxon (formerly Berks) was identified as the most normal town in the U.K. according to the BBC and researchers. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314.amp? Which makes me a Normal Town Poet&#8230;. More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,59,94,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-politics","category-populism","category-working-class-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-Yg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ntp.png?fit=887%2C390&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}