{"id":988,"date":"2003-01-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-22T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2010-03-27T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:41:09","slug":"988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/988\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely, lovely Wales!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lovely, lovely Wales!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some remotely interesting facts about my home country:<\/p>\n<p>Mount Everest was named after a Welshman (Sir George Everest from Crickhowell &#8211; surveyor-general of India 1865).<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh invented Whiskey and most corn-based liquor.<\/p>\n<p>30% of all UK volunteers in World War I were Welsh<\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s first co-operative was started by a Welshman.<\/p>\n<p>11 American Presidents are estimated to have had Welsh blood!<\/p>\n<p>18 people of Welsh descent were signatories The Declaration of Independence<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas was founded mostly by Welsh Mormons.<\/p>\n<p>Loads more facts about Wales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildofglyndwr.co.uk\/misc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, lovely Wales! Here&#8217;s some remotely interesting facts about my home country: Mount Everest was named after a Welshman (Sir George Everest from Crickhowell &#8211; surveyor-general of India 1865). The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-988","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}