{"id":67,"date":"2006-02-23T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=67"},"modified":"2006-02-23T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:28:20","slug":"the-changing-metropolis-earliest-photographs-of-london-1839-1879-by-gavin-stampviking-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-changing-metropolis-earliest-photographs-of-london-1839-1879-by-gavin-stampviking-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Metropolis: Earliest photographs of London 1839-1879 by Gavin StampViking, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calotypes, daguerrotypes, old city streets and buildings just the same or long disappeared. The lettering on the advertisements: &#8220;Maravilla cocoa,&#8221; &#8220;India rubber &#038; vulcanite works,&#8221; a sign for a wigmaker, est. 1760. Gaslights and the working waterfront, bridges being built across the Thames. Somerset house, the basement at the water&#8217;s very edge. The dome of St Paul&#8217;s, the steeple of St Martin-in-the-Fields. The quiet exterior of the British Museum, looking exactly as it does now, and the little church of St Mary-le-Strand, in the middle of the road. This book is really lovely, and so well-designed, from the maps on the endpapers to the shape of the type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calotypes, daguerrotypes, old city streets and buildings just the same or long disappeared. The lettering on the advertisements: &#8220;Maravilla cocoa,&#8221; &#8220;India rubber &#038; vulcanite works,&#8221; a sign for a wigmaker, est. 1760. Gaslights and the working waterfront, bridges being built across the Thames. Somerset house, the basement at the water&#8217;s very edge. The dome of [&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-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}