{"id":6199,"date":"2011-06-10T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:07:21","slug":"too-beautiful-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/too-beautiful-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Beautiful To Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Too beautiful and too romantic to survive&#8221; in a world of tower blocks and concrete.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what <a title=\"Sir-John-Betjeman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Betjeman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir John Betjeman <\/a>said about this Victorian Gothic treasure and London&#8217;s aptly named, just opened St.Pancras Renaissance Hotel. 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