{"id":24565,"date":"2019-11-19T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=24565"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:17:11","slug":"the-rise-of-facadism-in-london-from-the-bbc-and-the-gentle-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=24565","title":{"rendered":"The rise of &#8216;facadism&#8217; in London, from the BBC and \u2018The Gentle Author\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24566\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Spitalfields_thegentleauthor_191119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/>London blogger The Gentle Author has been photographing the changing face of London, focusing on what is known as \u2018facadism\u2019, the practice of destroying everything apart from the front wall and constructing a new building behind it.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC has presented a few pictures from the series and the story of the buildings that once stood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/in-pictures-50396337?SThisFB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%40thegentleauthor&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@thegentleauthor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London blogger The Gentle Author has been photographing the changing face of London, focusing on what is known as \u2018facadism\u2019, the practice of destroying everything apart from the front wall and constructing a new building behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24567,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions\/24567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}