{"id":20721,"date":"2025-11-16T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:28:52","slug":"evangelism-speakers-corner-hyde-park-london-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2025\/11\/evangelism-speakers-corner-hyde-park-london-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I\u2019m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.&#8221;<\/em> \u2013 Robert McCloskey <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?attachment_id=20722\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-11-25-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-11-25-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-11-25-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-11-25-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-11-25.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/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 spread their message or to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London. \u201cI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I\u2019m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.&#8221; \u2013 Robert McCloskey . . . . . . . . Speakers Corner in London\u2019s Hyde Park is the oldest free [&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-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","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=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20723,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions\/20723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}