{"id":704,"date":"2008-10-27T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T03:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/jericho-boatyard-saved\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T08:39:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T03:39:36","slug":"jericho-boatyard-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/jericho-boatyard-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Jericho boatyard saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Vidal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/oct\/10\/conservation-water\">Guardian<\/a> reports: Plans to develop the 160 year old boatyard into luxury flats were rejected by Oxford city council because they were &#8220;sterile&#8221; and &#8220;uninspiring.&#8221;  Author Philip Pullman, whose Gyptian characters docked at Jericho, was one of many conservation activists protesting the bid by the real estate developer by Spring Residential, calling the boatyard &#8220;part of a complex human ecology that sustains all kinds of life: economic life, artistic life, social life, environmental life, cultural life in the widest possible sense.&#8221;  Pullman hopes that the site might instead be developed for social housing and local workshops.  &#8220;The ideal situation now would be for a fairy godmother to appear with a pot of gold and make over the site to a trust.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/oct\/10\/conservation-water\">Read more<\/a>.  Thanks to Kinders again for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Vidal of the Guardian reports: Plans to develop the 160 year old boatyard into luxury flats were rejected by Oxford city council because they were &#8220;sterile&#8221; and &#8220;uninspiring.&#8221; Author Philip Pullman, whose Gyptian characters docked at Jericho, was one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/jericho-boatyard-saved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oxford","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}