{"id":4925,"date":"2015-05-03T05:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T04:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2018-06-05T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:39:42","slug":"the-dustbin-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"The dustbin of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jan15tweet.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4931\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jan15tweet.gif\" alt=\"jan15tweet\" width=\"739\" height=\"631\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only reason I&#8217;m posting this here is because it&#8217;s sinking down my Twitter page and yes, I was rather pleased with it. As usual pride goeth before a fall.<\/p>\n<p>After a sabbatical I&#8217;ve once again taken up my urgent mission to caption artefacts from the world&#8217;s (or at least London&#8217;s) <a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/scenes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">museums<\/a>.\u00a0To avoid the acute embarrassment of factual inaccuracy in a tweet,\u00a0I called a very helpful fellow at the Tate Britain to determine the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jollygoodthen\/status\/594818383327158272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this statue.<\/a> &#8220;The Eagle Slayer, by John Bell, 1851. Of painted iron. On loan from the V&amp;A.&#8221; It was a little more than I could fit.<\/p>\n<p>PS. It&#8217;s always nice to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jollygoodthen\/status\/594856142527995904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make someone&#8217;s day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only reason I&#8217;m posting this here is because it&#8217;s sinking down my Twitter page and yes, I was rather pleased with it. As usual pride goeth before a fall. After a sabbatical I&#8217;ve once again taken up my urgent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}