{"id":35926,"date":"2017-11-15T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35926"},"modified":"2017-11-15T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:26:03","slug":"todays-laugh-hotel-architecture-in-fiction-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35926","title":{"rendered":"Today’s laugh: Hotel architecture (in fiction, anyway)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ‘Mace and Sceptre’ is a large and quite hideous hotel which stands in the very centre of Oxford and which embodies, without apparent shame, almost every architectural style devised since the times of primitive man. Against this initial disadvantage it struggles nobly to create an atmosphere of homeliness and comfort. The bar is a fine example of Strawberry Hill Gothic.<\/em><\/p>\n

From The Moving Toyship<\/em>, by Edmund Crispin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ‘Mace and Sceptre’ is a large and quite hideous hotel which stands in the very centre of Oxford and which embodies, without apparent shame, almost every architectural style devised since the times of primitive man. Against this initial disadvantage … Continue reading →<\/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":[1175],"tags":[2486,2485,2484],"class_list":["post-35926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-edmund-crispin","tag-hotel-architecture","tag-the-moving-toyshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t