{"id":7888,"date":"2016-01-24T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2016-01-24T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:07:27","slug":"steelies-dine-and-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/steelies-dine-and-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelie&#8217;s Dine And Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be going soft in my old age. I think i&#8217;m the only one who feels sorry for Steelie. We know he spins lie after lie, but so what, as long as it&#8217;s not harming anybody.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, personally, i wouldn&#8217;t wish having to sleep rough on anyone. I just don&#8217;t dislike anybody enough to want that for them, not even the pig!<\/p>\n<p>So knowing that Steelie is literally living out of his backpack, sleeping out in minus 10 temperatures, and hungry, i can&#8217;t help but feel empathy and understanding with him doing this.<\/p>\n<p>We join Cam, short for Cameron, as he plots his big dine and dash on some bar he&#8217;s been in all day:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-EhGx5-KOg\" width=\"750\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the waitresses have to make up the shortfall in some places when people do a runner. That is wrong, and yes it&#8217;s wrong to do a runner without paying. But i&#8217;ve personally been where Steelie is. Not dine and dash or anything, but i&#8217;ve had money, lost it, had it again, lost it etc. And when you are down, hungry and desperate, you&#8217;re natural survival instincts take over, and you do whatever you need to do to survive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been so poor i&#8217;ve gone days without food. I&#8217;ve had so much money i honestly didn&#8217;t know what to do with it. I&#8217;m doing ok again now, but i know only too well, that just one bit of bad luck, and you can be right down there again.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, it goes without saying that Steelie shouldn&#8217;t of done that, but i also know what it&#8217;s like to feel how he is at this moment. If you haven&#8217;t been there, count your blessings and think before you judge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nobody knows what&#8217;s around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4471 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/John-eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized.gif\" alt=\"John eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized\" width=\"240\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4471\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/John-eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized.gif\" alt=\"John eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized\" width=\"240\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be going soft in my old age. I think i&#8217;m the only one who feels sorry for Steelie. We know he spins lie after lie, but so what, as long as it&#8217;s not harming anybody. But for me, personally, i wouldn&#8217;t wish having to sleep rough on anyone. I just don&#8217;t dislike anybody&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1954,1429,2261,2262,2263,1142],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bar","tag-canada","tag-dine-and-dash","tag-homeless","tag-sleeping-rough","tag-steeliehead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}