{"id":59,"date":"2006-02-05T23:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T03:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-02-05T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T03:50:39","slug":"in-search-of-london-by-hv-mortonda-capo-press-2002-originally-methuen-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/in-search-of-london-by-hv-mortonda-capo-press-2002-originally-methuen-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of London by H.V. MortonDa Capo Press, 2002 (originally Methuen, 1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quirky and fascinating and sweet London essays from the post-WWII years. Morton captures the span &#038; glory of history, from Roman London onward: monarchs &#038; intrigue &#038; so many old buildings. Though his tone can be sentimental or overly nostalgic or a little stuffy (referring to bebop as &#8220;the latest disharmony&#8221;), it&#8217;s mostly just wonderfully quaint. He writes so charmingly about the places he visits and the people he sees: the old man on the riverboat who turns out to have been an electrician when people were just switching to electricity from gas, the customers at second-hand bookshops, the vendors at the old Caledonian Market. Details and accents and memories: the fact that Morton, as a small boy, saw a London full of horses rather than cars, and then lived through the wars, through the Blitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quirky and fascinating and sweet London essays from the post-WWII years. Morton captures the span &#038; glory of history, from Roman London onward: monarchs &#038; intrigue &#038; so many old buildings. Though his tone can be sentimental or overly nostalgic or a little stuffy (referring to bebop as &#8220;the latest disharmony&#8221;), it&#8217;s mostly just wonderfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}