{"id":24174,"date":"2019-02-15T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24174"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:16:11","slug":"and-how-did-you-spend-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24174","title":{"rendered":"And how did you spend Valentine&#8217;s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I visited Manchester for the day with my new partner. We went to the People&#8217;s History Museum to join a special tour of the main&nbsp;galleries and hear about love stories through history \u2013 an event billed as &#8220;a perfect date for romantic radicals&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Wollstonecraft strongly disagreed with the treatment of women within the institution of marriage, even though she would go on to marry her lover William Godwin.&nbsp; Friedrich Engels discovered love when he was researching the lives of the working class in the slums of Manchester, meeting Irish immigrant Mary Burns with whom he had a relationship for over 20 years.&nbsp; Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who as a couple played a huge role in the formation of both the Fabian Society and the Labour Party, did not marry until after the death of Beatrice\u2019s father, and after much persuasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never come across the People&#8217;s History Museum &#8211; also known as the national museum of democracy &#8211; you&#8217;ll find more information <a href=\"https:\/\/phm.org.uk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Manchester for the day with my new partner. We went to the People&#8217;s History Museum to join a special tour of the main&nbsp;galleries and hear about love stories through history \u2013 an event billed as &#8220;a perfect date for romantic radicals&#8221;. Mary Wollstonecraft strongly disagreed with the treatment of women within the institution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174","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=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24254,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions\/24254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}