{"id":26345,"date":"2014-06-16T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26345"},"modified":"2014-06-16T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:18:02","slug":"the-tomb-for-richard-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/16\/the-tomb-for-richard-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The tomb for Richard III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-27865860\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a> has images of the tomb designed for the re-burial of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Design-of-Leicester-tomb-for-Richard-III.png\" alt=\"Design of Leicester tomb for Richard III\" width=\"626\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Design-of-Leicester-tomb-for-Richard-III.png 626w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Design-of-Leicester-tomb-for-Richard-III-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Design-of-Leicester-tomb-for-Richard-III-480x286.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The design of the tomb King Richard III will be reburied in at Leicester Cathedral, has been unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>The wooden coffin will be made by Michael Ibsen, a descendent of Richard III, while the tomb will be made of Swaledale fossil stone, quarried in North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost of reburial is \u00a32.5m and work will start in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Reverend David Monteith, Dean of Leicester, said the design &#8220;evokes memory and is deeply respectful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Judges ruled his remains, found under a Leicester car park in 2012, would be reinterred in Leicester, following a judicial review involving distant relatives of the king who wanted him buried in York.<\/p>\n<p>A new visitor centre is set to open in July, which will tell the story of the king&#8217;s life, his brutal death in Battle in 1485 and rediscovery of his remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News has images of the tomb designed for the re-burial of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral: The design of the tomb King Richard III will be reburied in at Leicester Cathedral, has been unveiled. The wooden coffin will be made by Michael Ibsen, a descendent of Richard III, while the tomb will be made [&hellip;]<\/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":[570,771],"class_list":["post-26345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-england","tag-richardiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6QV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345","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=26345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26347,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345\/revisions\/26347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}