{"id":71365,"date":"2018-12-14T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/14\/thousands-turn-out-for-unveiling-of-emmeline-pankhurst-statue-in-manchester\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:50:35","slug":"thousands-turn-out-for-unveiling-of-emmeline-pankhurst-statue-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=71365","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out for unveiling of Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suffragette is only the second statue of a woman in the city after Queen VictoriaThousands of people turned out in the freezing cold on Friday to welcome home Emmeline Pankhurst \u2013 the first female statue in Manchester that isn\u2019t Queen Victoria.The Moss Side-born suffragette was the overwhelming winner in a public vote three years ago to choose which woman should be immortalised in bronze, beating Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, anti-racism campaigner Louise da-Cocodia and \u201cRed\u201d Ellen Wilkinson, Labour cabinet minister and leader of the Jarrow March. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/dec\/14\/thousands-turn-out-for-unveiling-of-emmeline-pankhurst-statue-in-manchester\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands turn out for unveiling of Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suffragette is only the second statue of a woman in the city after Queen VictoriaThousands of people turned out in the freezing cold on Friday to welcome home Emmeline Pankhurst \u2013 the first female statue in Manchester that isn\u2019t Queen Victoria.The Moss Side-born suffragette was the overwhelming winner in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}