{"id":5442,"date":"2015-03-08T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:23:55","slug":"blue-grotto-pillbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/blue-grotto-pillbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Grotto Pillbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a recent visit to Malta, Paul Wells spotted this camouflage pillbox close to the famous Blue Grotto. Unfortunately, Paul was only able to get a distant photograph of the structure but he says it appears to be in good condition and in no danger of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"9b979d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #9b979d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"440\" data-id=\"12980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Malta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12980 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Malta1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Malta1-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blue Grotto Pillbox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously someone thought the idea of camouflaging pillboxes back home in \u2018Blighty\u2019 could be used to good effect elsewhere in the Empire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bet this example is pretty difficult to see from a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent visit to Malta, Paul Wells spotted this camouflage pillbox close to the famous Blue Grotto. Unfortunately, Paul was only able to get a distant photograph of the structure but he says it appears to be in good condition and in no danger of destruction. Obviously someone thought the idea of camouflaging pillboxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[995],"tags":[84],"class_list":{"0":"post-5442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-malta","8":"tag-pillbox","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}