{"id":262,"date":"2008-08-18T03:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2008-08-18T03:34:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:34:03","slug":"keeping-the-dogs-up-to-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/keeping-the-dogs-up-to-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEPING THE DOGS UP TO SCRATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the subject of greyhound racing (see my last post on Walthamstow Stadium) I came across this intriguing photograph from the Times Archive titled &#8216;Keeping the dogs up to scratch&#8217;. The caption reads: All on a summer&#8217;s days, girls from the greyhound kennels in Wandsworth, southewest London, put some of the dogs through their paces over hurdles in August 1939.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0890.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-263\" title=\"img_0890\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0890.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0890-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the subject of greyhound racing (see my last post on Walthamstow Stadium) I came across this intriguing photograph from the Times Archive titled &#8216;Keeping the dogs up to scratch&#8217;. The caption reads: All on a summer&#8217;s days, girls from the greyhound kennels in Wandsworth, southewest London, put some of the dogs through their paces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"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":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}