{"id":747,"date":"2004-09-01T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2015-03-24T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:19:14","slug":"747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/747\/","title":{"rendered":"London billboards and sandwich board men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London billboards and sandwich board men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/billboard.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London billboard\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, you&#8217;re walking along The Strand in 1838, minding your own business, when suddenly you&#8217;re confronted with a line of walking metal pots. Is the gin taking hold? Have you been imbibing some strong hallucinations?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, you&#8217;ve just encountered one of the many weird and wonderful ways that advertisers tried to promote their products back in pre-Victorian days.<\/p>\n<p>Check out my new article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/billboards.html\" target=\"_blank\">History of London Street Advertising<\/a> and then compare with my <a title=\"Photo Gallery of Human Billboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/billboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery of Human Billboards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London billboards and sandwich board men So, you&#8217;re walking along The Strand in 1838, minding your own business, when suddenly you&#8217;re confronted with a line of walking metal pots. Is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5950,"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":[194,17,193],"tags":[243,244],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-advertising","tag-sandwich-boards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/billboard.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-747","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16162,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/16162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}