{"id":111740,"date":"2017-11-28T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:29","slug":"air-raid-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/air-raid-warning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Raid Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yybn5PaAuds\/T-6x2NsYfnI\/AAAAAAAABLk\/tWEwAftjNi4\/s1600\/arp-mes01s.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/arp-mes01s-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111741\" width=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Peggy Vanderkar was studying at Chelsea College of Physical Education when the Second World War was started. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I was at 111, the Solkhorn family home, when war was declared on <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 1939<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. Immediately after the solemn declaration by Chamberlain the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Germany<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> had ignored the warning about invading <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Poland<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2026\u2026&nbsp; \u201c and so I declare that this country is at war with <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Germany<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">,\u201d there was an air raid warning. We were all reduced to laughter at the sight of lady air raid wardens dressed in tin hats and ankle socks. It was a sunny day and we decided to go for a walk on the Wandsworth Common, but were immediately sent back to collect our gas masks! Air Raid wardens did wonderful things during the war.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Vanderkar was studying at Chelsea College of Physical Education when the Second World War was started. I was at 111, the Solkhorn family home, when war was declared on 3rd September 1939. Immediately after the solemn declaration by Chamberlain the Germany had ignored the warning about invading Poland\u2026\u2026&nbsp; \u201c and so I declare that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}