{"id":78122,"date":"2019-01-31T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/31\/rare-sea-nymph-figurehead-from-crimean-war-ship-given-listed-status\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:01:07","slug":"rare-sea-nymph-figurehead-from-crimean-war-ship-given-listed-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=78122","title":{"rendered":"Rare sea nymph figurehead from Crimean war ship given listed status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grade II listing given to HMS Arethusa piece on advice of Historic EnglandA wooden figurehead depicting a mythical sea nymph which adorned a ship used in battle during the Crimean war has been named as one of the more unusual objects to get listed status from the UK government.The 3.5-metre-tall figure was used on HMS Arethusa and features an exposed right breast as it was thought in the 19th century that a naked woman would be able to calm a sea. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jan\/31\/uk-lists-nymph-figurehead-from-crimean-warship\" target=\"_blank\">Rare sea nymph figurehead from Crimean war ship given listed status<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade II listing given to HMS Arethusa piece on advice of Historic EnglandA wooden figurehead depicting a mythical sea nymph which adorned a ship used in battle during the Crimean war has been named as one of the more unusual objects to get listed status from the UK government.The 3.5-metre-tall [&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-78122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78122","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=78122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}