{"id":3201,"date":"2018-07-24T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2018-07-24T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:26:26","slug":"sound-mirrors-in-the-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/sound-mirrors-in-the-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound mirrors in the Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article about sound mirrors by the security and defence editor of the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forgotten, dilapidated and, in one case, buried by the local council as an eyesore; these smooth, spherical concrete structures known as acoustic mirrors provided the UK with its first early warning system against German air attack during the first world war.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5e95d5aa-8959-11e8-b18d-0181731a0340\">Joe Pettet-Smith\u2019s photographs of the UK\u2019s early warning air defence system<\/a>, David Bond, Financial Times, 20 July 2018.<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It even quotes this website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about sound mirrors by the security and defence editor of the Financial Times. Forgotten, dilapidated and, in one case, buried by the local council as an eyesore; these smooth, spherical concrete structures known as acoustic mirrors provided the UK with its first early warning system against German air attack during the first world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-references","tag-financial-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","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=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}