{"id":2733,"date":"2014-04-16T21:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2014-04-16T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:39:02","slug":"bbc-on-spurn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/bbc-on-spurn\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC on Spurn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/kilnsea\/\">Kilnsea sound mirror<\/a> got a mention on the BBC website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; One legacy of the raids is the sound mirror, which still stands in a field just outside the village.<\/p>\n<p>The large concave concrete dish acted as a primitive radar, amplifying engine sounds from distant Zeppelins so they could be heard by an operator, who would then send an air-raid warning inland by radio.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-humber-26324444\">World War One: Spurn Point&#8217;s military relics at sea&#8217;s mercy<\/a>, 28 February 2014<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(note that despite what the article says, the Spurn railway was standard gauge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kilnsea sound mirror got a mention on the BBC website: &#8230; One legacy of the raids is the sound mirror, which still stands in a field just outside the village. The large concave concrete dish acted as a primitive radar, amplifying engine sounds from distant Zeppelins so they could be heard by an operator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[16,37],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-mirrors","category-links","tag-bbc","tag-kilnsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}