{"id":26488,"date":"1979-04-10T16:46:01","date_gmt":"1979-04-10T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:29:08","slug":"edward-g-preston-reflections-on-a-return-visit-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26488","title":{"rendered":"Edward G Preston &#8211; Reflections on a Return Visit to the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From &#8216;<a title=\"Bohemian Bagatelle (1979)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26383\">Bohemian Bagatelle<\/a>&#8216;, published 1979 by the Bohemians]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REFLECTIONS ON A RETURN VISIT TO THE CITY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something special about the City of London;<\/p>\n<p>Something nobody can put a name to;<\/p>\n<p>Something different about the atmosphere;<\/p>\n<p>But not really the atmosphere we breathe;<\/p>\n<p>More the atmosphere of experience:<\/p>\n<p>Of history speaking through the hub-bub;<\/p>\n<p>The fascination of the semi-hidden courtyards;<\/p>\n<p>The livery company halls;<\/p>\n<p>The ancient customs still observed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who knows London at all says:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It has an atmosphere all its own\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Though most never look at the ancient churches,<\/p>\n<p>Nor cast an eye in the direction of the Bank or Monument;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve never seen inside the Guildhall<\/p>\n<p>Or observed the election of the Lord Mayor,<\/p>\n<p>And couldn\u2019t direct you to Threadneedle Street or Crutched Friars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edward G. Preston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; REFLECTIONS ON A RETURN VISIT TO THE CITY \u00a0 There\u2019s something special about the City of London; Something nobody can put a name to; Something different about the atmosphere; But not really the atmosphere we&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26488\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[248,109,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26492,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}