{"id":40183,"date":"2019-02-05T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40183"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:50:10","slug":"leslie-hore-belisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/leslie-hore-belisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Hore-Belisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1934 on certain crossings<br \/>\nOn the road<br \/>\nAmber coloured globe lights<br \/>\nAtop a black and white pole<br \/>\nThe road surface was studded<br \/>\nAnd later painted black and white<br \/>\nAnd so the Zebra crossing it was of born<br \/>\nAnd Took the role<\/p>\n<p>The minister of transport<br \/>\nThe man who introduced<br \/>\nThese crossings his name Belisha<br \/>\nAnd they were there to boost<br \/>\nNight time realization<br \/>\nThe Belisha beacon they<br \/>\nNamed after  the minister<br \/>\nWho actually passed away<br \/>\nIn 1957 born in 1893<br \/>\nAnd these crossings<br \/>\nare now common<br \/>\nAnd do<br \/>\n actually<br \/>\nGive the people<br \/>\nRights over the vehicle<br \/>\nAnd so<br \/>\nPeople do feel safer on them<br \/>\nAs we all now know<\/p>\n<p>Used in Australia and NEw Zeland<br \/>\nAnd Liberia and other countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1934 on certain crossings On the road Amber coloured globe lights Atop a black and white pole The road surface was studded And later painted black and white And so the Zebra crossing it was of born And Took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/leslie-hore-belisha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40186,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183\/revisions\/40186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}