{"id":292,"date":"2012-03-12T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-03-18T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:27:00","slug":"in-the-news-former-fusilier-unearths-bomb-in-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Former Fusilier unearths bomb in garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Royal Fusilier, Arthur Amphlett, got more than a spadeful of trouble when, according to the <em>Coventry Telegraph<\/em> (12 March 2012), he unearthed the tail end of a WW II German bomb in his vegetable patch. Friend Jenny Keen wanted to polish it up and keep it to impress the neighbours. Finders keepers, in my opinion, Jenny. I can&#8217;t see the Germans wanting it back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=350\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-350\" title=\"Ruins of Coventry cathedral\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wcoventry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wcoventry2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wcoventry2-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mr. Amphlett lives in Canley, on the outskirts of Coventry, England. Sad to say, but Coventry had a bad time of it in WW II, particularly on the night of 14 November 1940. The air raid by the Luftwaffe left over 500 dead and destroyed most of the medieval cathedral. The iconic photo of Churchill inspecting the ruins is shown\u00a0off to\u00a0the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Royal Fusilier, Arthur Amphlett, got more than a spadeful of trouble when, according to the Coventry Telegraph (12 March 2012), he unearthed the tail end of a WW II German bomb in his vegetable patch. Friend Jenny Keen wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[25,24,26],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-world-war-ii","tag-arthur-amphlett","tag-bomb","tag-coventry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}