{"id":27203,"date":"2014-08-04T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27203"},"modified":"2014-08-03T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:21:04","slug":"qotd-the-lamps-are-going-out-all-over-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/qotd-the-lamps-are-going-out-all-over-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;The lamps are going out all over Europe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I had two short talks with [Sir Edward] Grey during the &#8220;twelve days.&#8221; I ran into him on the stairs of the Foreign Office on Saturday, August 1st [&#8230;] I saw him again late in the evening at his room at the Foreign Office on Monday, August 3rd, and it was to me he used the words which he has repeated in his book, &#8220;The lamps are going out all over Europe, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.&#8221; We were standing together at the window looking out into the sunset across St. James&#8217;s Park, and the appearance of the first lights along the Mall suggested the thought.<\/p>\n<p>John Alfred Spender, <em>Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2.<\/em>, 1927.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two short talks with [Sir Edward] Grey during the &#8220;twelve days.&#8221; I ran into him on the stairs of the Foreign Office on Saturday, August 1st [&#8230;] I saw him again late in the evening at his room at the Foreign Office on Monday, August 3rd, and it was to me he used [&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":[4,7,41,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-quotations","category-ww1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-74L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203","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=27203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27204,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203\/revisions\/27204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}