{"id":12645,"date":"2021-05-23T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=12645"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:55:28","slug":"sunday-afternoon-at-speakers-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2021\/05\/sunday-afternoon-at-speakers-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon at Speakers Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th, 1855, a carpenter set up a soapbox in Hyde Park, near Marble Arch in London, and made a speech to onlookers complaining abut high food prices. Thus was born the tradition that became known as Speakers&#8217; Corner, the place where free speech is exercised by anyone who wishes to. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?attachment_id=12646\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12646\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sc-16th-May-use-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sc-16th-May-use-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sc-16th-May-use-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sc-16th-May-use-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sc-16th-May-use.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>166 years later the tradition carries on &#8211; looking forward today to supporting Christians on their soapboxes and engaging in some one-to-one evangelism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th, 1855, a carpenter set up a soapbox in Hyde Park, near Marble Arch in London, and made a speech to onlookers complaining abut high food prices. Thus was born the tradition that became known as Speakers&#8217; Corner, the place where free speech is exercised by anyone who wishes to. 166 years later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12648,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions\/12648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}