{"id":13584,"date":"2024-01-18T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13584"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:24:46","slug":"the-writing-on-the-wall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13584","title":{"rendered":"The writing on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Bristol has a reputation for radical politics; a reputation that stretches back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1831_Bristol_riots\">riots of 1831<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/articles\/bristol-past-and-present\/the-bristol-bridge-riot\/\">1793 Bristol Bridge riot<\/a>. Some might even say its radical history dates back even further: in the 11th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wulfstan_(died_1095)\">Bishop Wulfstan<\/a> made it his mission to end the practice of selling Christian slaves to the Vikings Ireland and spent months preaching to the people of Bristol against the practice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This radical tradition is continued by a new piece of street art which has appeared on St Mark&#8217;s Road in the Easton district in the last few days and clearly emphasises the area&#8217;s attitudes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/600px_st_mark_fem.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti with words Easton Feminist Antifascist on black border\" width=\"600\" height=\"803\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/600px_st_mark_fem.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/600px_st_mark_fem-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol has a reputation for radical politics; a reputation that stretches back to the riots of 1831 and the 1793 Bristol Bridge riot. Some might even say its radical history dates back even further: in the 11th century, Bishop Wulfstan made it his mission to end the practice of selling Christian slaves to the Vikings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[40,20],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13603,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions\/13603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}