{"id":2388,"date":"2010-09-22T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2010-09-22T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T09:53:58","slug":"london-in-the-rain-seen-from-a-double-decker-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-in-the-rain-seen-from-a-double-decker-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"London in the rain from a double decker bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/central-london-rain-1.jpg\" alt=\"London in the rain, seen from a double decker bus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually run around the streets of London swinging an umbrella and singing in the rain, but I do rather like inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my favourite songs go on about the rain or snow, and I&#8217;m never\u00a0happier\u00a0than when I&#8217;m stomping through thick snow in the countryside, or going to sleep to the sound of the howling wind and\u00a0thundering\u00a0rain outside.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few views taken from the top floor of a double decker as it swept through central London in a September rainstorm a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/central-london-rain-2.jpg\" alt=\"London in the rain, seen from a double decker bus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heading down Regent Street under a dark September sky.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/central-london-rain-3.jpg\" alt=\"London in the rain, seen from a double decker bus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Into Trafalgar Square, with the High Commission of Canada to the right, and the National Gallery to the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t actually run around the streets of London swinging an umbrella and singing in the rain, but I do rather like inclement weather. Most of my favourite songs go &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[269,31],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-bus","tag-rain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/central-london-rain-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Cw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}