{"id":239,"date":"2015-07-21T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:31:08","slug":"virgin-trains-east-coast-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/21\/virgin-trains-east-coast-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Trains East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had already sampled the new franchise operator\u2019s first class service going north from Morpeth, and have reported it was excellent. So I expected my southbound journey to London to be of the same high quality, if not better. Alas, a little disappointment today. Waiting for my breakfast to come I politely asked a staff member if complimentary newspapers were still provided. I was told yes, but that I needed to go and find one myself \u201cthey should be somewhere on the train\u201d. And indeed they were \u2013 in the luggage vestibules. I\u2019m sure that if Christopher Garnett had been a fellow passenger on the train he would not have been amused. Announcements such \u201cPassengers in First Class please note we will do another breakfast run after York\u201d did rather degrade the otherwise excellent catering in to a feeling of sittings at school dinners. Verdict: A serious lapse in standard \u2013 must do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had already sampled the new franchise operator\u2019s first class service going north from Morpeth, and have reported it was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}