{"id":100,"date":"2025-02-14T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:56:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Light Straw: Making clear sense of telecommunications history.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Light Straw was the paint colour choice for Strowger telephone exchange racks from about 1960 onwards, until the System X racks of the 1980s began to displace them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, <em>Light Straw<\/em> (shortened to <em>Lightstraw<\/em> for convenience) is the adopted brand name for a range of web and book-based published histories of the General Post Office, and associated themes under the <em>My GPO Family<\/em> banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light Straw: Making clear sense of telecommunications history. Light Straw was the paint colour choice for Strowger telephone exchange racks from about 1960 onwards, until the System X racks of the 1980s began to displace them. Today, Light Straw (shortened to Lightstraw for convenience) is the adopted brand name for a range of web and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/light-straw.co.uk\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}