{"id":1022,"date":"2005-12-22T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/22\/22-december-2005\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T15:16:02","slug":"22-december-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"22 December 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1135293362-sc-21.jpg?w=182\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-1023\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Exhausting day &#8211; very mild for the time of year. Quite a bit of Christmas shopping, plus a last visit to the university before Christmas: finally I have everybody&#8217;s work &#8211; and I&#8217;ve marked all but the four pieces on which I have to consult with the photography man.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the ancestor trail, the picture is of my father&#8217;s father, Charles Frederick Lenton, born in Norman&#8217;s Cross, Northamptonshire, 1879. I have very few memories of him, but I remember a family gathering at Poringland where he gave me a hard-backed exercise book to write in. I remember distinctly being thrilled at this. He was once a railway lampman, but he had various other jobs, including working in the shoe-trade and &#8211; so I am told &#8211; helping to build the road over Mousehold Heath, Norwich, in the early 20th century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhausting day &#8211; very mild for the time of year. Quite a bit of Christmas shopping, plus a last visit to the university before Christmas: finally I have everybody&#8217;s work &#8211; and I&#8217;ve marked all but the four pieces on which I have to consult with the photography man. Back on the ancestor trail, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 December 2005<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}