{"id":3423,"date":"1943-07-24T11:15:01","date_gmt":"1943-07-24T00:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=3423"},"modified":"1943-07-24T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"1943-07-24T00:15:01","slug":"the-canals-were-full-of-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=3423","title":{"rendered":"The canals were full of rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of my friends today left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hoak\/4304141791\/\">a photo of canal barges in ice<\/a> in Hamburg and reminded me of a story I was told by a German woman who had lived in Hamburg during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II\">bombings<\/a>, while we were in China. She said that the bombing was a good thing because they used the rubble to fill in the old canals and that this was better because the canals were full of rats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snurb\/2991939782\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3424\" title=\"HamburgCanal\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HamburgCanal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends today left a photo of canal barges in ice in Hamburg and reminded me of a[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[488,649,1649,2621,3008,3160],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-ramblings","tag-bombing","tag-canal","tag-hamburg","tag-operation-gomorrah","tag-rats","tag-rubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}