{"id":88,"date":"2012-04-30T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-06-02T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:30:15","slug":"founder-of-pan-books-alan-bott-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2012\/04\/30\/founder-of-pan-books-alan-bott-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of PAN Books Alan Bott Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89 alignleft\" title=\"The Bott Incident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bott-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bott-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bott.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alan Bott was a WW1 flying ace and was shot down in Turkey. This scene is represented in a painting &#8220;The Bott Incident&#8221; by Stuart Reid in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Eastern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90 alignleft\" title=\"Eastern Flights And Nights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Eastern-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Eastern-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Eastern.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0He also wrote about this experience and his subsequent escape from a POW camp in the book &#8216;Easter Nights and Flight&#8217; which was originally published in\u00a04 parts in the Harpers magazine from August 1919. It was also republished by Penguin in 1941. \u00a0He escaped with a fellow prisoner who also wrote about this incident in\u00a0his book &#8216;Guests Of The Unspeakable&#8217; by T W White.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be updating the Alan Bott pages on the site shortly and will have a lot more details about this and other aspects of his life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Bott was a WW1 flying ace and was shot down in Turkey. This scene is represented in a painting &#8220;The Bott Incident&#8221; by Stuart Reid in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. \u00a0He also wrote about this experience and his subsequent escape from a POW camp in the book &#8216;Easter Nights and Flight&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}