{"id":23,"date":"2010-06-28T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-06-28T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:59:00","slug":"2010628british-museum-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"British Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><em>In the crypt of St. Martins in the Field, midday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We spent the morning going through the British Museum. We were struck by how many treasures of the Ancient World were brought to London during the height of the British Empire. A windfall for tourists and museum-goers like ourselves; an understandable sore spot for former colonies.&nbsp;Huge multi-story monuments were taken apart and are now housed in the museum.&nbsp;Especially impressive were the Assyrian Lions that once guarded the entrance to the palace of a long-gone civilization. &nbsp;The Egyptians, Greek, and Roman holdings were also improessive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The museum was quite hot to walk around (no air conditioning), and we both feel dehydrated right now. &nbsp;We are having lunch in the crypt beneath St. Martins to cool off. &nbsp;I&#8217;m having a chicken salad plate, and Becky had ratatouille. &nbsp;We&#8217;re heading to the British Library this afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"PictoBrowser110728104631\">Get the flash player here: http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/flashplayer<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser\/swfobject.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var so = new SWFObject(\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\", \"PictoBrowser\", \"500\", \"500\", \"8\", \"#EEEEEE\"); so.addVariable(\"source\", \"sets\"); so.addVariable(\"names\", \"British Museum\"); so.addVariable(\"userName\", \"inforailway\"); so.addVariable(\"userId\", \"29326517@N07\"); so.addVariable(\"ids\", \"72157627176731429\"); so.addVariable(\"titles\", \"on\"); so.addVariable(\"displayNotes\", \"on\"); so.addVariable(\"thumbAutoHide\", \"off\"); so.addVariable(\"imageSize\", \"medium\"); so.addVariable(\"vAlign\", \"mid\"); so.addVariable(\"vertOffset\", \"0\"); so.addVariable(\"colorHexVar\", \"EEEEEE\"); so.addVariable(\"initialScale\", \"off\"); so.addVariable(\"bgAlpha\", \"90\"); so.write(\"PictoBrowser110728104631\");\t<\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the crypt of St. Martins in the Field, midday We spent the morning going through the British Museum. We were struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,5],"tags":[38,27],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-london","category-travel","tag-british-museum","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjimhudson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}