{"id":32975,"date":"2026-03-24T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=32975"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:16:31","slug":"raf-pink-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/raf-pink-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Pink Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it has long closed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There used to be an RAF base <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the edge of my village <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its actual name was RAF Eddington <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all knew it as RAF Pink Rose <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On account of the number of rose bushes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That could be found around the base <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then mysteriously early in the war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these beautiful bushes were uprooted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This caused a great deal of anger locally <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until it was explained that these beautiful roses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could be seen very clearly from the air <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And were of assistance to enemy bombers <br><br><br>Target London (1946) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it has long closed There used to be an RAF base On the edge of my village Its actual name was RAF Eddington But all knew it as RAF Pink Rose On account of the number of rose bushes That could be found around the base And then mysteriously early in the war All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32979,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32975\/revisions\/32979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}