{"id":2083,"date":"2017-07-17T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:24:43","slug":"comment-plans-old-school-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/comment-plans-old-school-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on plans for the old school building"},"content":{"rendered":"You may be interested to read Guardian Columnist Kevin McKenna&#8217;s view on the plans to turn the old Royal High School building into a hotel &#8211;\r\n\r\n&#8220;What threatens Edinburgh more than tourism is the recent civic support for a building policy that threatens the very character of its ancient and beloved built heritage. We have already observed the way in which a Las Vegas production is taking shape at the east end of Princes Street and the recent attempts to destroy the famous High School and turn it into a hotel that seems to have been inspired by Walt Disney. There are other equally hellish plans afoot.&#8221;\r\n\r\nRead the full article &#8211; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jul\/16\/i-know-exactly-where-edinburgh-festival-crowds-can-go","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be interested to read Guardian Columnist Kevin McKenna&#8217;s view on the plans to turn the old Royal High School building into a hotel &#8211; &#8220;What threatens Edinburgh more than tourism is the recent civic support for a building policy that threatens the very character of its ancient and beloved built heritage. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}