{"id":2944,"date":"2015-07-07T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:45:02","slug":"remembering-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/2015\/07\/07\/remembering-77\/","title":{"rendered":"remembering 7\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2944\" class=\"elementor elementor-2944 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-xlccplx elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"xlccplx\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-mvqenri\" data-id=\"mvqenri\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eagfslk elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eagfslk\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>i didn\u2019t learn until a&nbsp;few days later that i&nbsp;avoided being blown up on the circle or metropolitan line between liverpool street and aldgate stations by only twenty minutes. i&nbsp;passed though the tunnel on my way to work about half past eight. the explosions came at 8.50. when i&nbsp;left the tube at aldgate there was no indication of what was about to happen behind me a&nbsp;few minutes later. now when i&nbsp;use the same station i&nbsp;always glance at the little plaque with the names of those killed. there are always fresh flowers, and i&nbsp;always remember that&nbsp;day.<\/h5><h5>i remember the confusion at work, the jammed mobile networks, and the conflicting official accounts which we watched on the school\u2019s tiny tv set, which started as \u2018isolated incidents\u2019, then \u2018fires\u2019. some of the students were terrified. on the point of panic. desperate to leave although the announcements kept coming; \u2018stay where you are\u2019. there were sirens wailing as fire vehicles, and police cars roared up commercial road just around the corner. helicopters whirred and growled overhead.&nbsp;it was only much later that what was obvious to everyone\u2009\u2014\u2009that it was an organised terrorist attack\u2009\u2014\u2009was openly acknowledged.<\/h5><p>i remember having to walk home from whitechapel, the tubes had stopped and the few buses were quickly packed. crowds marching, through the city and on to the west end, to holland park where i&nbsp;lived then. i&nbsp;stopped off at a&nbsp;pub on the way, in holborn. unusually for london people were talking together, even joking and laughing. it was reminiscent of what we were told by our parents and grandparents about life in WWII; people were closer, more co-operative, a&nbsp;community of shared experience. it felt a&nbsp;bit like that, openly talking to strangers. despite the laughing and joking there was no denying the underlying sombre mood.<\/p><p>i remember it was a&nbsp;beautiful july day, brilliant blue sky and golden warm sunshine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(one of) the days i&nbsp;nearly died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,221,220],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-219","tag-remembrance","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB5sm-Lu","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}