{"id":5308,"date":"2015-06-15T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2015-06-15T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:03:12","slug":"800-years-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5308","title":{"rendered":"800 Years Today!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Today, Monday, June 15 is the year&#8217;s most \u00a0important anniversary.Eight centuries ago, King John I \u00a0found himself in the \u00a0muddy field of Runnymede on a bend of the River Thames near Windsor Castle with the great foundational document of modern liberty under his nose and awaiting his seal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Friday, good friend Dan Richardson and I \u00a0were among the first to welcome Durham Cathedral&#8217;s 13th century copy of Magna Carta to Ottawa. You can check out Dan&#8217;s excellent article on the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2cjournal.ca\/2015\/06\/magna-carta-at-800-canadas-founding-charter-of-rights\/\">here.<\/a> Congratulations Dan!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fenian-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5309\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fenian-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Fenian Poster\" width=\"4802\" height=\"4041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fenian-Poster.jpg 4802w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fenian-Poster-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fenian-Poster-1024x862.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4802px) 100vw, 4802px\" \/><\/a><strong>CAROLYN HARRIS ET MOI!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two U of T grads celebrate the arrival of Magna Carta to the Canadian Museum of History. Carolyn&#8217;s book, Magna Carta and its Gift to Canada, has been written to explicitly support the tour of the Great Charter across Canada. Congratulations Carolyn!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Monday, June 15 is the year&#8217;s most \u00a0important anniversary.Eight centuries ago, King John I \u00a0found himself in the \u00a0muddy field of Runnymede on a bend of the River Thames near Windsor Castle with the great foundational document of modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}