{"id":5882,"date":"2012-02-18T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2012-02-18T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:36:00","slug":"london-the-health-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/02\/18\/london-the-health-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"London the health resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is as promised a few days ago another snip from William Macrie&#8217;s The Diary of a London Explorer (1934)<\/p>\n<p>From the section entitled What is London?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;London&#8217;s master problem is gambling. There is no drink problem.<\/p>\n<p>London is a health resort. According to Dr. Saleeby London&#8217;s water is the finest in the world. See Naples and die. See London and live.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s greatest glory is its port.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I should explain that Macrie founded The London Explorers Club and this book documents his walks and various engagements with his city and its surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I have to confess the entire time I lived in London I did not detect any noticeable health benefits from the experience. Maybe I needed to spend more time at the port to acquire them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is as promised a few days ago another snip from William Macrie&#8217;s The Diary of a London Explorer (1934) From the section entitled What is London? &#8220;London&#8217;s master problem is gambling. There is no drink problem. London is a health resort. According to Dr. Saleeby London&#8217;s water is the finest in the world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[730,1294,1309],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-london","tag-water","tag-william-macrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}