{"id":2108,"date":"2016-08-01T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:41:03","slug":"memories-of-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/01\/memories-of-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/57974779e4b0c7bdf48538b6\/2138000\"><strong>The Guardian asked for readers&#8217; memories of the hottest summer on record. Here are mine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1976, the hottest summer\u00a0in living memory. Every afternoon in my parents\u2019 Home Counties garden, my best friend and I slathered Hawaiian Tropic over every inch of our exposed flesh, hoping to sizzle like chipolatas. This dark, coconut-scented oil offered virtually no protection from the sun, only the means to fry even faster.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re supposed to be swotting for exams, but the books lie open on the ground and Radio One crackles from the transistor. We turn it down when my mother comes out from the kitchen bearing a jug of lemon squash, ice cubes clinking against the glass&#8230; [<a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/57974779e4b0c7bdf48538b6\/2138000\">click here to read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian asked for readers&#8217; memories of the hottest summer on record. Here are mine. 1976, the hottest summer\u00a0in living memory. Every afternoon in my parents\u2019 Home Counties garden, my best friend and I slathered Hawaiian Tropic over every inch of our exposed flesh, hoping to sizzle like chipolatas. This dark, coconut-scented oil offered virtually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}