{"id":1261,"date":"2009-08-12T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/this-bench-sits-along-the-thames-on-the-south-bank-between-waterloo-and-blackfriars-bridges-its-a-nice-bench-since-we-le\/"},"modified":"2014-03-16T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T00:34:35","slug":"this-bench-sits-along-the-thames-on-the-south-bank-between-waterloo-and-blackfriars-bridges-its-a-nice-bench-since-we-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/this-bench-sits-along-the-thames-on-the-south-bank-between-waterloo-and-blackfriars-bridges-its-a-nice-bench-since-we-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day in London, for Now, and What Did I Find?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7656970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7656970b \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" alt=\"The Bench\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7656970b-320wi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>\nThis bench sits along the Thames, on the South Bank, between Waterloo and BlackFriars Bridges. It&#8217;s a nice bench. Since we leave London tomorrow I had my last walk along the river today. And it gave me a gift<\/p>\n<p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7823970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7823970b \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" alt=\"The plaque AND bench\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a4eb7823970b-320wi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>\nI walked around it, to sit down and say goodbye to the river, the bridges and London &#8211; found this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a5429c0d970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef0120a5429c0d970c \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" alt=\"The plaque\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef0120a5429c0d970c-320wi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>\nIt&#8217;s been a lovely time. \u00a0We fly in the morning. \u00a0See you on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bench sits along the Thames, on the South Bank, between Waterloo and BlackFriars Bridges. It&#8217;s a nice bench. Since we leave London tomorrow I had my last walk along the river today. And it gave me a gift I walked around it, to sit down and say goodbye to the river, the bridges and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/this-bench-sits-along-the-thames-on-the-south-bank-between-waterloo-and-blackfriars-bridges-its-a-nice-bench-since-we-le\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Day in London, for Now, and What Did I Find?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,78],"tags":[440,438,304,439,3419],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","category-travel","tag-bench","tag-london","tag-south-bank","tag-thames","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}