{"id":13383,"date":"2012-09-22T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:10:11","slug":"is-england-in-london-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/is-england-in-london-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is England in London? (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/union-jack-faded-300x214.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"128\" \/>Whenever Americans find out that I&#8217;m from <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/is-england-in-london\/\">England<\/a> (and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> from Australia), the conversation quickly turns to the subject of London.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it&#8217;s usually assumed that I was born in London (I wasn&#8217;t) and that I&#8217;ve lived in London my whole life (I haven&#8217;t). When someone is telling me about his experience of London I&#8217;m often tempted to ask him what he means by <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;London&#8221;<\/em><\/span> because, like most things in England, things are rarely straight-forward&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrObZ_HZZUc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever Americans find out that I&#8217;m from England (and not from Australia), the conversation quickly turns to the subject of London. For example, it&#8217;s usually assumed that I was born in London (I wasn&#8217;t) and that I&#8217;ve lived in London my whole life (I haven&#8217;t). When someone is telling me about his experience of London I&#8217;m often tempted to ask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1538,1537,2563,56],"class_list":["post-13383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-city-of-london","tag-london","tag-uk-geography","tag-united-kingdom-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}