{"id":16932,"date":"2012-09-15T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2012-09-15T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:33:15","slug":"the-richard-iii-debate-moves-to-where-should-we-bury-him-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/the-richard-iii-debate-moves-to-where-should-we-bury-him-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richard III debate moves to “where should we bury him this time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Telegraph<\/em>, Dan Hodges<\/a> calls for giving Richard III “a last, glorious summer”:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a brilliant idea. Seriously. Think of where Richard stands. At the centre of our history, our art, our education, our national identity. What a staggering opportunity this represents.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s give him a full, no-holds-barred state funeral. Everyone\u2019s been banging on about preserving the Olympic spirit; well here — DNA tests permitting — is our chance. This is a once in a generation opportunity. In fact, it\u2019s a once in about 20 generations opportunity. Let\u2019s bring our history alive.<\/p>\n

Just imagine the crowds that would gather for the chance of watching a 21st century ceremonial to a Plantagenet king. And not just an English king, but thanks to Shakespeare, a global monarch.<\/p>\n

Picture the moment. A silent Mall. A slow drum beat. An honor guard, heads bowed in tribute to their leader who fell 500 years before. Richard, making his last journey, laid upon a ceremonial gun carriage, draped in the flag of the kingdom he died fighting for. And ahead of him walks a riderless horse. The horse that in his last moments, he would have swapped that kingdom for.<\/p>\n

Bloody hell, I\u2019d miss an episode of Strictly<\/em> for that. And I bet a few million others would as well.<\/p>\n

Okay, there\u2019s the slightly unfortunate business of the Princes and the Tower. But we\u2019ve all made the odd mistake. Plus, if you read Josephine Tay\u2019s the Daughter of Time<\/em>, it was a fit up anyway.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve learnt over the past couple of months it\u2019s that — to borrow a phrase from another high profile if much maligned senior statesman — we are at our best when at our boldest. Or more accurately, when we say \u201cdamn it, let\u2019s do it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now is one of those moments. Damn it. Let\u2019s give Richard III one last, glorious summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Telegraph, Dan Hodges calls for giving Richard III “a last, glorious summer”: It\u2019s a brilliant idea. Seriously. Think of where Richard stands. At the centre of our history, our art, our education, our national identity. What a staggering opportunity this represents. Let\u2019s give him a full, no-holds-barred state funeral. Everyone\u2019s been banging on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[288,183,396,771],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-archaeology","tag-dna","tag-monarchy","tag-richardiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16933,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}