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Hope everyone else is okay&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/blasts-hit-london\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Blasts hit London\"><div class='e-content p-summary'>Just a quick note to say that I&#8217;m okay&#8230;sitting at my desk at work. The entire tube network has closed down and there have been reports of an explosion on a bus. My wife is fine, but tells me there has been a loud bang at Euston outside her office. Hope everyone else is okay&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-london","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/yesterday-in-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":0},"title":"Yesterday in London","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"8 July 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It started as a great journey to work. 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