{"id":13934,"date":"2016-12-14T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:25:24","slug":"londoners-facing-chaos-due-to-southern-rail-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/londoners-facing-chaos-due-to-southern-rail-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Londoners facing chaos due to Southern rail strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Reporter: Micaela Kolischer<\/h4>\n<p>Southern rail has announced a number of strikes, after the network halted on December 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Bosses of the rail service agreed to have a meeting with unions, hoping to settle the disagreement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-38307155\"><em>BBC<\/em><\/a> reported. The meeting will take place this Tuesday, however, there is another planned strike due to happen on Friday 16<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, unions announced they would strike on December 16<sup>th<\/sup>, 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 31<sup>st<\/sup> and January 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters in London have felt the pain and expressed their frustrations on social media:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chad__Stevens\/status\/808590463217319936?lang=en-gb<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunGunner\/status\/808579882196275201?lang=en-gb<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Theresa_Maybe\/status\/808732477565075456?lang=en-gb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter: Micaela Kolischer Southern rail has announced a number of strikes, after the network halted on December 13th. Bosses of the rail service agreed to have a meeting with unions, hoping to settle the disagreement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,134],"tags":[3769,5778,5937,6441,6452],"class_list":["post-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uknews","tag-london","tag-southernrail","tag-strike","tag-trains","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}