{"id":18181,"date":"2024-11-24T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=18181"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:25:32","slug":"today-at-speakers-corner-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2024\/11\/today-at-speakers-corner-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London."},"content":{"rendered":"

All closed because of Storm Bert – not sure why the whole park needs closing!
\nLooks like it\u2019s outside the main gates for some discussion, chat & a jolly good argument!
\nAlmost at Speakers corner, we will try again next week
\nAchilles 0 Bertie 1<\/p>\n

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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 spread their message or to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All closed because of Storm Bert – not sure why the whole park needs closing! Looks like it\u2019s outside the main gates for some discussion, chat & a jolly good argument! Almost at Speakers corner, we will try again next week Achilles 0 Bertie 1 . . . . . . . . . . […]<\/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-18181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181","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=18181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18198,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}