{"id":71,"date":"2006-07-07T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-07-07T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T07:19:00","slug":"july-7th-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/july-7th-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"July 7th in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not much comfort if you are one of the dead or disabled in a terrorist attack but the odds on it happening to you are so remote, compared to being run over or involved in a car crash that it is just not worth worrying about.<\/p>\n<p>I was affected last year on this date inasmuch as I travel on the tube to work and had to walk 9 miles across London to get home- a great way to see London! And the day after I was back on the tube, and it was a lot quieter than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Why so unaffected by terrorism? From the age of 10 until 27 I lived in Northern Ireland- right through the &#8220;troubles&#8221;, just ten miles outside Belfast in Carrickfergus. In the 70s we could hear the Belfast bomb explosions in Carrickfergus. And I spent three years at Queen&#8217;s University in Belfast, living in the Halls of Residence on Malone road. A lovely city- with an innovative approach to urban regeneration. A policy implemented in part by the Innercity Regeneration Association or IRA for short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not much comfort if you are one of the dead or disabled in a terrorist attack but the odds on it happening to you are so remote, compared to being run over or involved in a car crash that it is just not worth worrying about. I was affected last year on this date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}