{"id":3318,"date":"2011-02-02T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:48:41","slug":"london-rain-six-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-rain-six-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"London rain: six rain-drenched scenes from the capital&#8217;s streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-02.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Here comes the rain.. Here she comes again&#8230;I love the rain&#8221;<\/em> sang The Cult, and with London regularly being doused in\u00a0the stuff, it&#8217;s no surprise that so many artists choose to sing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like the leather-clad, stage-strutting rocker, I&#8217;m rather keen on the stuff too, so here&#8217;s a random sextet of rainy London views.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-01.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Tottenham Court Road gets a summer rainstorm]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-03.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Pedestrians take a splashing from a passing car, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-04.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Dashing home, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-05.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Tottenham Court Road shower]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-rain-06.jpg\" alt=\"London rain: five photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final shot &#8211; rather appropriately &#8211;  was taken outside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.james-smith.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Smith and Sons Umbrella Shop<\/a> on New Oxford Street.<\/p>\n<p>The store was founded in 1830 and is still owned and run as a family business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More London photos here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Here comes the rain.. Here she comes again&#8230;I love the rain&#8221; sang The Cult, and with London regularly being doused in\u00a0the stuff, it&#8217;s no surprise that so many artists choose &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6908,"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":[3,194,17,193],"tags":[10,31],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-rain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/london-rain-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","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=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}