{"id":60638,"date":"2017-06-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60638"},"modified":"2017-06-07T05:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T09:35:20","slug":"bbc-buxton-anti-slavery-monument-unveiled-in-weymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60638","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Buxton anti-slavery monument unveiled in Weymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A monument commemorating the life of a leading anti-slavery campaigner has been unveiled in a dedication ceremony in Dorset.<br \/>\nSir Thomas Fowell Buxton, an MP for Weymouth in the 1800s, was a driving force behind the abolition of slavery.<br \/>\nThere are already memorials to him in London, Jamaica and Sierra Leone.<br \/>\nThe \u00a390,000 monument, carved by Weymouth College stonemasonry students, is the result of seven years of work by the Thomas Fowell Buxton Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-dorset-40170397\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monument commemorating the life of a leading anti-slavery campaigner has been unveiled in a dedication ceremony in Dorset. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, an MP for Weymouth in the 1800s, was a driving force behind the abolition of slavery. There<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60638\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,199,114,151,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60639,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60638\/revisions\/60639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}