{"id":10437,"date":"2013-01-07T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:42:24","slug":"happy-150th-birthday-to-the-london-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10437","title":{"rendered":"Happy 150th birthday to the London Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about 30 years, I travelled on the London Underground every working day. For the past decade as a portfolio worker, I have continued to use the tube &#8211; as everyone calls it &#8211; an average of three or four days a week. So it is a big part of my life and that of all who live and work in London and its suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>It is the oldest and largest underground system in the world and it celebrates its 150th anniversary this week. You can read some fascinating facts in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/going-underground-a-metro-spective-to-celebrate-150-1522223\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I spend so much time on the Underground, perhaps it is not a surprise that I set one of my short stories entirely on the tube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Story28\">&#8220;The Girl With The Crimson Scar&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about 30 years, I travelled on the London Underground every working day. For the past decade as a portfolio worker, I have continued to use the tube &#8211; as everyone calls it &#8211; an average of three or four days a week. So it is a big part of my life and that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437","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=10437"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}