{"id":3901,"date":"2017-09-25T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:54:32","slug":"charles-dickens-in-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/09\/25\/charles-dickens-in-staffordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens in Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/dickens-plated-article-1852.pdf\">visits the Potteries<\/a> in the early 1850s&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PUTTING up for the night in one of the chiefest towns of Staffordshire, I find it to be by no means a lively town. <\/p>\n<p>I have paced the streets and stared at the houses, and am come back to the blank bow window of the Dodo [Inn]; and the town clocks strike seven. I have my dinner and the waiter clears the table, leaves me by the fire with my pint decanter, and a little thin funnel-shaped wine-glass and a plate of pale biscuits &#8211; in themselves engendering desperation. <\/p>\n<p>No book, no newspaper! What am I to do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dodo Inn was actually a lightly disguised name for the Swan in Green inn, Gate St., Stafford.  Apparently he merely visited a small bit of the Potteries for part of a day, taking the train from Stafford then a tour of a pot works in Stoke, though he managed to get a long article out of it. The tradition obviously started early, of a London journalist spending a few hours here and becoming an &#8216;instant expert&#8217; on the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens visits the Potteries in the early 1850s&#8230; PUTTING up for the night in one of the chiefest towns of Staffordshire, I find it to be by no means a lively town. I have paced the streets and stared at the houses, and am come back to the blank bow window of the Dodo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}