{"id":3263,"date":"2019-09-02T21:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:47:45","slug":"bombing-the-channel-ports-by-eric-ravilious-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/bombing-the-channel-ports-by-eric-ravilious-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bombing the Channel Ports&#8221; by Eric Ravilious, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of the 1941 watercolour painting &#8220;Bombing the Channel Ports&#8221; by war artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Ravilious\">Eric Ravilious<\/a>, and the same view of the <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/abbots-cliff\/\">Abbott&#8217;s Cliff sound mirror<\/a> on 13 August 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/collections\/item\/object\/22468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.iwm.org.uk\/ciim5\/176\/449\/mid_000000.jpg?action=e&#038;cat=Art\" alt=\"Bombing the Channel Ports\" width=\"600\"> <\/a> <span><br \/>Bombing the Channel Ports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/corporate\/privacy-copyright\">\u00a9 IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1588)<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/abbotscliff-bombingthechannelports-2017.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The painting is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/collections\/item\/object\/22468\">described by the Imperial War Museum<\/a> as showing &#8220;a deserted coastal road that leads past an &#8216;acoustic mirror&#8217; early warning device. In the top right of the composition there are searchlights beaming up into the sky, and a large circular glow of light to one side.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of the 1941 watercolour painting &#8220;Bombing the Channel Ports&#8221; by war artist Eric Ravilious, and the same view of the Abbott&#8217;s Cliff sound mirror on 13 August 2017. Bombing the Channel Ports \u00a9 IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1588) The painting is described by the Imperial War Museum as showing &#8220;a deserted coastal road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,9],"tags":[12,61],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-individual-mirrors","category-sound-mirrors","tag-abbots-cliff","tag-sound-mirror-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","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=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}