{"id":26063,"date":"2015-03-23T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26063"},"modified":"2015-10-11T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:55:22","slug":"qotd-simla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/qotd-simla\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Simla"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was a glorious spot then, before Kipling&#8217;s vulgarians and yahoos had arrived, a little jewel of a hill station ringed in by snow-clad peaks and pine forests, with air you could almost drink, and lovely green valleys like the Scotch border country &mdash; one of &#8217;em was absolutely called Annandale, where you could picnic and <em>f\u00eate<\/em> to heart&#8217;s content. Emily Eden had made it <em>the<\/em> resort in the &#8217;30s, and already there were fine houses on the hillsides, and stone bungalows with log fires where you could draw the curtains back and think you were in England; they were building the church&#8217;s foundations then, on the ridges above the Bazaar, and laying out the cricket ground; even the fruits and flowers were like home &mdash; we had strawberries and cream, I remember that first afternoon at Lady Sale&#8217;s house. <\/p>\n<p>George MacDonald Fraser, <em>Flashman and the Mountain of Light<\/em>, 1990.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a glorious spot then, before Kipling&#8217;s vulgarians and yahoos had arrived, a little jewel of a hill station ringed in by snow-clad peaks and pine forests, with air you could almost drink, and lovely green valleys like the Scotch border country &mdash; one of &#8217;em was absolutely called Annandale, where you could picnic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[32,23,41],"tags":[971],"class_list":["post-26063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-india","category-quotations","tag-flashman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26065,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions\/26065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}