{"id":2205,"date":"2009-11-09T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2009-11-09T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:06:50","slug":"in-search-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/in-search-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"TixyyLink\" style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1225853\/ROY-HATTERSLEY-My-search-Gods-country-I-wouldnt-swap-England-else.html#ixzz0WN3Ah2KM\"><\/a><a title=\"Roy Hattersley on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Hattersley\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Hattersley<\/a> has just published <a title=\"In Search of England on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Search-England-Roy-Hattersley\/dp\/1408700964\" target=\"_blank\">In Search of England<\/a> (Little Brown, Nov 2009). It&#8217;s adapted from a series of columns he wrote for the <a title=\"Roy Hattersley in the Daily Mail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1225853\/ROY-HATTERSLEY-My-search-Gods-country-I-wouldnt-swap-England-else.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail<\/a> while travelling around the country.<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the publisher blurb- &#8220;Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its borders, life changes mile on mile. Roy Hattersley celebrates crumbling churches and serene Victorian architecture, magnificent hills and wind-whipped coast, our music, theatre and local customs, and, above all, the quirky good humour and resilience of England&#8217;s denizens. In Search of England is an unapologetic love story, a paean of praise for all the fascinating variety and flavour of England&#8217;s places and people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Hattersley has just published In Search of England (Little Brown, Nov 2009). It&#8217;s adapted from a series of columns he wrote for the The Daily Mail while travelling around the country. Here&#8217;s the publisher blurb- &#8220;Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2206,"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},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}