{"id":329,"date":"2008-03-05T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2008-03-05T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:15:00","slug":"a-train-trip-up-the-valleys-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-train-trip-up-the-valleys-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"A train trip up the Valleys, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/south-wales-01.jpg\" alt=\"South Wales valley lines, Spring 1989 - a trip up the Valleys at the end of the coal era\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve scanned in a few photos from a train trip I took nearly twenty years ago. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/south-wales-07.jpg\" alt=\"South Wales valley lines, Spring 1989 - a trip up the Valleys at the end of the coal era\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Travelling out of Cardiff with my then girlfriend Debbie, I doubt if we knew just how quickly this scene would be transformed. Now there&#8217;s barely any industry left in the Welsh Valleys, thanks to the Evil Thatch and her Tory cohorts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/welsh-valleys.html\">More pics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve scanned in a few photos from a train trip I took nearly twenty years ago. Travelling out of Cardiff with my then girlfriend Debbie, I doubt if we knew &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6281,"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_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":[17,90,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-railways","category-stuff","category-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/south-wales-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-5j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}