{"id":260,"date":"2008-02-12T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T09:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/bath-england\/pump-rooms-roman-baths-bath-england"},"modified":"2008-02-12T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T09:23:57","slug":"pump-rooms-roman-baths-bath-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/pump-rooms-roman-baths-bath-england","title":{"rendered":"Pump Rooms &#8211; Roman Baths, Bath, England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg 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