{"id":5544,"date":"2011-04-27T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2011-04-27T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:27:42","slug":"what-did-big-ben-say-to-the-tower-of-pisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"What did Big Ben say to the Tower of Pisa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the time if you&#8217;ve got the inclination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forgive my recollection of this schoolboy joke, but I&#8217;m prompted to share it with you because of the news this week that, after two decades of being covered by scaffolding for a major restoration and clean, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa\">Leaning Tower of Pisa<\/a> can now be seen in its full glory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually been to the top of the tower twice: the first time on 4 September 1975 and then again on 10 August 1989. I recommend it. It gives a new angle on life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the time if you&#8217;ve got the inclination.&#8221; Forgive my recollection of this schoolboy joke, but I&#8217;m prompted to share it with you because of the news this week that, after two decades of being covered by scaffolding for a major restoration and clean, the Leaning Tower of Pisa can now be seen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}