{"id":821,"date":"2012-10-04T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=821"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:47:57","slug":"birmingham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=821","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first got to know Birmingham &nbsp;a little when I was at Shrewsbury School (1958-61). I went on a school trip to at least one concert there, and at least once, when I was visiting David Ratcliff&#8217;s home in Sutton Coldfield, we were driven into the centre of the city.<\/p>\n<p>But it was during my three year degree course at Birmingham College of Commerce (1964-67. This college became part of the City of Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971, the University of Central England in 1992 and Birmingham City University in 2007).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/vt\/data=Ay5GWBeob_WIPLDYoIWcfVXxvZu9XwJ55OX7Ag,WjOeHBdESC2GdMT3K7v7Bg77vS4Gbxq7gHY8kG7n_dkID4zt9spXakozolHVp2gmlVpnyOC-zvxk7FYFnmyOHdQ4Yww\" alt=\"Birmingham, West Midlands\" width=\"272\" height=\"187\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first got to know Birmingham &nbsp;a little when I was at Shrewsbury School (1958-61). I went on a school trip to at least one concert there, and at least once, when I was visiting David Ratcliff&#8217;s home in Sutton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":557,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-821","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions\/1785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}