{"id":555,"date":"2003-07-02T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T20:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2003-07-02T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T20:35:55","slug":"the-london-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/the-london-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"the london underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that during WWII, many Londoners used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/london\/insideldn\/insideout\/series3\/bethnalgreen_tube.shtml\" title=\"BBC.co.uk | Bethnal Green Disaster\" class=\"extlink\">Underground stations as bomb shelters<\/a> during air raids? The BBC is airing a special on one particular incident involving the London Underground, one that has gone down as the worst civilian tragedy of the war. There is a brief history of the Underground as a bomb shelter on this page and a synopsis of the terrible event, but there&#8217;s no way to watch the special online. :(<\/p>\n<p>To me, it&#8217;s still so amazing to look back and think about what everyday life would be like during the time of a real war.  It&#8217;s something that most Americans have been lucky to never experience here in the States. Hopefully we&#8217;ll never have stories like these to tell for ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that during WWII, many Londoners used the Underground stations as bomb shelters during air raids? The BBC is airing a special on one particular incident involving the London Underground, one that has gone down as the worst civilian tragedy of the war. There is a brief history of the Underground as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/the-london-underground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the london underground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}