{"id":1447,"date":"2012-09-25T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2012-09-25T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:59:12","slug":"horse-guards-whitehall-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Horse Guards, Whitehall, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1471\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuards7205.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuards7205.jpg\" alt=\"Interior view with painting\" title=\"HorseGuards int\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuards7205.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuards7205-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front room with paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure> <em>Open House London<\/em><br \/>\nA Grade I listed Palladian composition at the heart of Whitehall, for a hundred years the HQ of the British Army.<br \/>\nThe symmetrical building sits over and around an archway leading from Whitehall through to Horse Guards Parade.<br \/>\nOn the visitor tour one gets to see the stairwell, the central lobby, Wellington&#8217;s room with his partner desk (now used as a major-general&#8217;s office), the front room with various paintings, and the descending stairwell.<br \/>\nIt was opened as part of &#8220;Open House London 2012&#8221;<br \/>\nIf you go, expect a wait of 1 to 1.5 hours before you can get in, in a group of about 30. Bring sharp elbows to deter queue-jumpers. \ud83d\ude42 A tour, conducted by a serving soldier, lasts about 45 mins.<br \/>\nI did not take external photos because of the rain.<br \/>\nWorth a visit? That depends on how interested you are in military history.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1472\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuard7206.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuard7206-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wellington&#039;s desk\" title=\"HorseGuard desk\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1472\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wellington&#039;s desk<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_1475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1475\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuard7209.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HorseGuard7209-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Horse Guards central dome\" title=\"HorseGuard int\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1475\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central dome<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open House London A Grade I listed Palladian composition at the heart of Whitehall, for a hundred years the HQ of the British Army. The symmetrical building sits over and around an archway leading from Whitehall through to Horse Guards Parade. On the visitor tour one gets to see the stairwell, the central lobby, Wellington&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horse Guards, Whitehall, London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}