{"id":609,"date":"2010-02-09T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/edinburghs-royal-high-school-set-to-rise-again-as-35m-art-hotel\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:48:00","slug":"edinburghs-royal-high-school-set-to-rise-again-as-35m-art-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/edinburghs-royal-high-school-set-to-rise-again-as-35m-art-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh&#8217;s Royal High School set to rise again as \u00a335m art hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"Jim Landis, who spoke at last year&#8217;s Annual Dinner about plans for the old school building in Regent Road has told us about this article which appeared in the Scotsman.<br \/>For copyright reasons we can&#8217;t reproduce the article, and so we can only refer you to the site http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/ and cover the main points here &#8211;<br \/><br \/>The former Royal High School building on Calton Hill in Edinburgh is to be redeveloped into an arts hotel, Edinburgh City Council will announce today.<br \/><br \/>The \u00a335 million project will bring the A-listed building, once mooted as a home for the Scottish Parliament, back into public use for the first time since 1968.<br \/><br \/>The hotel will include a restaurant, caf\u00e9 and public gallery.<br \/><br \/>Council chiefs described it as a &#8220;hugely exciting&#8221; development.<br \/><br \/>However, critics hit out at the decision to turn it into a hotel rather than a cultural facility, describing it as a &#8220;bungle&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Landis, who spoke at last year&#8217;s Annual Dinner about plans for the old school building in Regent Road has told us about this article which appeared in the Scotsman.For copyright reasons we can&#8217;t reproduce the article, and so we can only refer you to the site http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/ and cover the main points here &#8211;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-609","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\/609","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}