{"id":25762,"date":"2020-04-23T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25762"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:45:32","slug":"happy-st-georges-day-but-he-was-not-the-character-you-might-have-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25762","title":{"rendered":"Happy St George&#8217;s Day &#8211; but he was not the character you might have thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is nothing more English than St George, right? And today we celebrate him and all things English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St George might be hailed as a national hero, but he was actually born \u2013 in the 3rd century AD \u2013 more than 2,000 miles away in Cappadocia (modern day Turkey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is thought to have died in Lydda (modern day Israel) in the Roman province of Palestine in AD 303. It is believed that his tomb was in Lod and was a centre of Christian pilgrimage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find nine things you didn&#8217;t know about St George <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/whats-on\/st-georges-day\/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-st-george\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more English than St George, right? And today we celebrate him and all things English. St George might be hailed as a national hero, but he was actually born \u2013 in the 3rd century AD \u2013 more than 2,000 miles away in Cappadocia (modern day Turkey). He is thought to have died [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762","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=25762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25764,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762\/revisions\/25764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}