{"id":46799,"date":"2026-02-16T02:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-is-behind-the-spike-in-pothole-related-call-outs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:36:02","slug":"what-is-behind-the-spike-in-pothole-related-call-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-is-behind-the-spike-in-pothole-related-call-outs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is behind the spike in pothole related call-outs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">I was driving on the B653 &#8211; a well-used country road &#8211; when the pothole loomed. The road was too narrow to swerve, and we heard a nasty clunk. I put on the hazard lights \u2013 as did the driver in front, and the two vehicles behind. Four cars with busted tyres, thanks to a pothole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cddn0n3p2ppo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving on the B653 &#8211; a well-used country road &#8211; when the pothole loomed. The road was too narrow to swerve, and we heard a nasty clunk. I put on the hazard lights \u2013 as did the driver in front, and the two vehicles behind. Four cars with busted tyres, thanks to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[13744,9226,13743,7809],"class_list":["post-46799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-callouts","tag-pothole","tag-related","tag-spike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46801,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799\/revisions\/46801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}