{"id":13,"date":"2012-09-10T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2013-10-07T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T08:37:19","slug":"foreword","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Tanner&#8217;s Foreword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?attachment_id=88\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88\" title=\"Titlepage1906-8\" src=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LT_Titlepage1906-8.jpg\" alt=\"Title Page from Tanner's first diary\" width=\"817\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LT_Titlepage1906-8.jpg 817w, http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LT_Titlepage1906-8-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>34 years later Tanner wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Journal in 4 volumes was kept during my last year at Westminster from Sept 1908 to July 1909 when I was Head of my House.  The circumstances in which it was written were unusual in as much as, owing to the fact that my Father was the Housemaster, I was living partly at home and throughout the period retained my own private bedroom.  I was able, therefore, to write the account of each day \u2014 and did in fact do so \u2014 in bed every night while the events were fresh in my memory.  I doubt if it would have been possible \u2014 or at any rate it would have been very difficult \u2014 to have written it so fully under normal conditions of School life.<\/p>\n<p>Although I had looked at it from time to time \u2014 often, it must be confessed, with some distaste, even with a desire to destroy it \u2014 it was not until last year (30 years after it was written) that I read it through carefully as a whole.  I am bound to say that I found it to be far more interesting that I had anticipated.  There is, of course, much that I deplore.  It is in parts, as one might expect, crude, priggish, prejudiced and irritating, but it does in fact give, I think \u2014 partly by the very triviality of the events recorded \u2014 an exceedingly vivid impression of the Westminster of that time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Lawrence Tanner, October 1940<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34 years later Tanner wrote: This Journal in 4 volumes was kept during my last year at Westminster from Sept 1908 to July 1909 when I was Head of my House. The circumstances in which it was written were unusual &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}