{"id":22901,"date":"2018-04-24T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22901"},"modified":"2018-04-29T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T09:05:22","slug":"who-was-millicent-fawcett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22901","title":{"rendered":"Who was Millicent Fawcett?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great that today we saw the unveiling of the first statute of a woman in London&#8217;s Parliament Square where there has previously only been statues of men (11 of them). The new statute is of Millicent Fawcett &#8211; but who exactly was she?<\/p>\n<p>She was a campaigner for the right of women to vote, but she was a suffragist rather than a suffragette, favouring peaceful means of campaigning. You can read more about her statue and her life\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/who-was-millicent-fawcett-leading-suffragist-is-first-woman-to-get-statue-in-parliament-square-a3821806.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: Two days later, I went to Parliament Square to see the statute which has photographers around the base of other women who campaigned for the female vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great that today we saw the unveiling of the first statute of a woman in London&#8217;s Parliament Square where there has previously only been statues of men (11 of them). The new statute is of Millicent Fawcett &#8211; but who exactly was she? She was a campaigner for the right of women to vote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22915,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions\/22915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}