{"id":1658,"date":"2006-10-22T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2006-10-22T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T11:20:36","slug":"gentle-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Gentle oral history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found on Radio 4 a lovely little piece of oral history, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/pip\/naqcb\/\">Honeymoon Hotel<\/a>, about newly married couples making a great adventurous journey, to Jersey, in 1956, lured by a tax break that one says gave them \u00c2\u00a325!<\/p>\n<p>It is a reminder of how far and fast the world has changed. For virtually all of them this was the first time they&#8217;d been on a plane &#8211; which made it a great exciting adventure. And they were so shy &#8211; embarrassed about being seen to <i>go to bed<\/i> that the barman had to chase them out in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found on Radio 4 a lovely little piece of oral history, Honeymoon Hotel, about newly married couples making a great adventurous journey, to Jersey, in 1956, lured by a tax break that one says gave them \u00c2\u00a325! It is a reminder of how far and fast the world has changed. For virtually all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}