{"id":129476,"date":"2016-01-13T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/cant-tell-your-tube-station-without-a-program.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:39:55","slug":"cant-tell-your-tube-station-without-a-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/cant-tell-your-tube-station-without-a-program.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Can&#039;t Tell Your Tube Station Without A Program!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on the etymology of unusual London Underground station names (hint: a lot seem to refer to taverns that no longer exist).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Oxford Dictionaries<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how some of the more unusual sounding <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23tube\">#tube<\/a> stops in <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23London\">#London<\/a> got their <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23name\">#name<\/a>? Find out in our blog post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2016\/01\/london-underground-origins-unusual-names\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bBfQVx8Wv1D8P_inY1aBAczpnEve8PGIGhbm0mdz-_KyEfqCiOXRtdeLT66_Bsh1STVjU_YfakUonL_dWeBFmRmvHVDh6rHVhWwiqRYOcxn9VmC1_ILkpaPHFv7tsf9K2xE=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2016\/01\/london-underground-origins-unusual-names\/'>London Underground: the origins of some unusual names | OxfordWords blog<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHave you ever wondered how some of the more unusual sounding tube stops in London got their name? Find out in our blog post.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/a7zK4imEgjV'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on the etymology of unusual London Underground station names (hint: a lot seem to refer to taverns that no longer exist). Originally shared by +Oxford Dictionaries: Have you ever wondered how some of the more unusual sounding #tube stops in #London got their #name? Find out in our blog post. London Underground: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/cant-tell-your-tube-station-without-a-program.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Can&#039;t Tell Your Tube Station Without A Program!&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,717,24],"tags":[940,941,939],"class_list":["post-129476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-traveling","category-writing-and-language","tag-london","tag-name","tag-tube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128436,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/posters-of-the-underground.html","url_meta":{"origin":129476,"position":0},"title":"Posters of the Underground","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Oct-15 9:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There is something about London transit posters about the Tube, the buses, the trains and the like, and the wonderful artistic beauty to them. 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