{"id":15177,"date":"2023-03-12T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2023-03-10T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:32:06","slug":"speakers-corner-hyde-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2023\/03\/speakers-corner-hyde-park-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers Corner. Hyde Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One-to-One evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nRobert Quillen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?attachment_id=15178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sc-march-12-23-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sc-march-12-23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sc-march-12-23-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sc-march-12-23-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sc-march-12-23.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speakers Corner in London\u2019s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spead their message or to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-to-One evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London. &#8220;Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance&#8221; Robert Quillen Speakers Corner in London\u2019s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe [&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-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177","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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15180,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions\/15180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}