{"id":61,"date":"2008-12-03T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:50:58","slug":"a-new-memorial-to-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"A new memorial to William Blake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/Blake_grave.jpg\" alt=\"Blake's grave in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islingtongazette.co.uk\/content\/islington\/gazette\/news\/story.aspx?brand=ISLGOnline&#038;category=news&#038;tBrand=northlondon24&#038;tCategory=newsislg&#038;itemid=WeED02%20Dec%202008%2019%3A47%3A20%3A870\" target=\"_blank\">Islington Gazette<\/a> reports today on a campaign to erect a new memorial located on &#8216;the exact spot of the grave of one of Britain&#8217;s most famous poets &#8211; William Blake&#8217;. Enthusiasts claim to have located the exact place in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bunhill_Fields\" target=\"_blank\">Bunhill Fields Burial Ground<\/a> where Blake was buried; you can see a picture of the spot with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islingtongazette.co.uk\/content\/islington\/gazette\/news\/story.aspx?brand=ISLGOnline&#038;category=news&#038;tBrand=northlondon24&#038;tCategory=newsislg&#038;itemid=WeED02%20Dec%202008%2019%3A47%3A20%3A870\" target=\"_blank\">newspaper article<\/a>. As often, there is a motive: there&#8217;s money on offer for the park that receives the most votes from Londoners and visitors in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/parksvote\/vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">vote for your park<\/a> campaign. What, I wonder, would he have made of all this fuss? <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more about Blake, including a picture of notes left for him by his gravestone, on the Literary Connections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/blake.html\">Blake page<\/a>. Bunhill Fields also holds the remains of other famous Dissenters, such as John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe; more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/Corporation\/LGNL_Services\/Environment_and_planning\/Parks_and_open_spaces\/City_Gardens\/bunhill.htm\" target=\"_blank\">City of London page<\/a> about the burial ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for new memorial to mark burial site of poet William Blake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-blake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}