{"id":1082,"date":"2022-05-27T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steinkrug.com\/magazine\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:25:40","slug":"the-day-the-builders-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/2022\/05\/27\/the-day-the-builders-came\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Builders Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/steinkrug.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Builder3_001_ful.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Builder3_001_ful.jpg 616w, https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Builder3_001_ful-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Builder3_001_ful-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">There have probably been worse building sites in Cambridgeshire, although perhaps none quite as bad this one. There was an Environment Agency that did not care, a local authority in denial and a builder hoping to make a quick profit but instead ending up knee deep in mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Here are selected extracts from&nbsp;<em>The Day The Builders Came&nbsp;<\/em>the forthcoming book describing incompetence and greed and a warning to avoid digging holes on land with complex and troubled histories.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There have probably been worse building sites in Cambridgeshire, a result of the county\u2019s seemingly unstoppable growth, although I cannot recall one quite as bad this <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/2022\/05\/27\/the-day-the-builders-came\/\" title=\"The Day The Builders Came\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8],"tags":[43],"class_list":{"0":"post-1082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-builders","8":"category-stories","9":"tag-home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}