{"id":10212,"date":"2012-12-16T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2012-12-16T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T14:00:29","slug":"preparing-for-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-outbreak-of-world-war-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10212","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/visits\/iwm-london\">Imperial War Museum<\/a> in central London to view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/exhibitions\/iwm-london\/cecil-beaton-theatre-of-war\">an exhibition of photographs<\/a> taken by Cecil Beaton during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>I found that most of this fascinating museum is closed for major redesign, starting with the opening in 2014 of a new section on the First World War to mark the centenary of that war.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914.org\">an interesting web site<\/a> providing recollections of that war and information on how the centenary will be marked by many organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I visited the Imperial War Museum in central London to view an exhibition of photographs taken by Cecil Beaton during the Second World War. I found that most of this fascinating museum is closed for major redesign, starting with the opening in 2014 of a new section on the First World War to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}