{"id":1618,"date":"2011-03-29T19:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2011-03-29T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:38:36","slug":"rugby-and-southam-warwickshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/rugby-and-southam-warwickshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby and Southam Warwickshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of towns which are situated fairly close together in the county of <a title=\"Warwickshire Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/warwickshire-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warwickshire<\/a>, Rugby and Southam are both to the south-east of Coventry. Rugby is in fact the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest town on the county, since Coventry and Birmingham were moved to the West Midlands in 1974. <a title=\"Rugby Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/rugby-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby<\/a> of course gives its name to the sport, after the new game was \u201cinvented\u201d by William Webb Ellis, while playing football at Rugby School in 1823, when he bent the rules by picking up the ball and running with it. <a title=\"Southam Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/southam-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Southam<\/a> is a much smaller town but has an interesting history receiving a charter from Ethelred the Unready during its early day as a Saxon settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of towns which are situated fairly close together in the county of Warwickshire, Rugby and Southam are both to the south-east of Coventry. Rugby is in fact the 2nd largest town on the county, since Coventry and Birmingham were moved to the West Midlands in 1974. Rugby of course gives its name to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,782,6,3],"tags":[848,844,846,847,810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}