{"id":3375,"date":"2016-09-27T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:19:07","slug":"not-as-far-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Not as far as you think"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Glasgow, on a \u00a31 ticket, courtesy of my Club 50 railcard.\u00a0 I did not walk all that far, but was amply rewarded with some fine architectural gems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Anchor<\/a>
Anchor Line building St Vincent Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lion,<\/a>
Lion, Cenotaph, George Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"City<\/a>
City Chambers, George Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Argyll<\/a>
Argyll Arcade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"House<\/a>
House of Fraser, Buchanan Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"HSBC<\/a>
HSBC Building, Buchanan Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Before that, I called upon the Russian Consul General who made a gift to our family of the commemorative items commissioned for the Arctic Convoy veterans.\u00a0 All the staff there were most gracious considering that I turned up unannounced.<\/p>\n

\"Tartan\"<\/a>
Tartan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Book\"<\/a>
Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Whisky\"<\/a>
Whisky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Glasgow, on a \u00a31 ticket, courtesy of my Club 50 railcard.\u00a0 I did not walk all that far, but was amply rewarded with some fine architectural gems.                                                       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}