{"id":1652,"date":"2010-10-11T03:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2010-10-11T03:44:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T07:44:31","slug":"hyde-park-the-speakers-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/hyde-park-the-speakers-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyde Park &#8212; The Speakers&#8217; Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday, after attending church at St. Paul, <\/strong>we went to Hyde Park and walked around.<\/p>\n<p>Among the commonplace sites at a park such as this we witnessed what we, as &#8220;outsiders,&#8221; considered uncommon: a place where speakers brought stools and proclaimed their message. Most of them were little more than rhetoric &#8212; some in bad taste.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>But then there was one named Jay Smith<\/strong>. He <em>spoke <\/em>with the people, rather than shouting <em>at <\/em>them. He explained the gospel to Muslims and pointed out the greatness of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the highlights of my trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh &#8212; and a church we passed by had the Meaning of Life at 42. <\/strong> Next thing you know, they&#8217;ll be canonizing Douglass Adams. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, after attending church at St. Paul, we went to Hyde Park and walked around. Among the commonplace sites at a park such as this we witnessed what we, as &#8220;outsiders,&#8221; considered uncommon: a place where speakers brought stools and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/hyde-park-the-speakers-corner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-qE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}