{"id":3127,"date":"2002-10-21T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2002-10-21T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2002-10-21T19:46:50","slug":"my-maternal-grandmother-would-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/10\/21\/my-maternal-grandmother-would-have\/","title":{"rendered":"My maternal grandmother would have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My maternal grandmother would have been 107 today.<br \/>\nIt is also the 36th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuff.ox.ac.uk\/politics\/aberfan\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"useful information resource about the disaster\">Aberfan disaster<\/a>, in which a waste tip at a Welsh coal mine collapsed, burying part of the neighbouring village including three classrooms of the junior school. 144 people died, including 116 children. I don&#8217;t think anyone can fail to be moved by the images of that disaster, including the picture of the local policeman carrying a child that had been pulled from the rubble. I particularly suggest that you read the accounts of the witnesses:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">I heard a noise, a big rumbling noise. I saw a tree and a telegraph pole coming towards me first, then I saw a big black mass of stuff. A black wave of muck. (pupil)<\/p>\n<p>It stopped as it hit the last house down No.1 Moy Road and there was a terrible silence. In that silence you couldn&#8217;t hear a bird or a child. (resident)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the school was smashed over with this rubble. And I remember standing looking at that and thinking, well, the reality of it, I just couldn&#8217;t believe it. And from where there were, at least to my calculations, a hundred children there wasn&#8217;t a sound. (teacher)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My maternal grandmother would have been 107 today. It is also the 36th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, in which a waste tip at a Welsh coal mine collapsed, burying part of the neighbouring village including three classrooms of the junior school. 144 people died, including 116 children. I don&#8217;t think anyone can fail to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}