{"id":1867,"date":"2003-12-24T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T23:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/24\/buckingham-palace-lit-like-billboard\/"},"modified":"2003-12-24T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T23:45:23","slug":"buckingham-palace-lit-like-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/24\/buckingham-palace-lit-like-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace Lit Like Billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2111'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/buckpal.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" align=\"left\"><em>With<br \/>\n          typical low-key British aplomb, the Queen has consented to allow, for<br \/>\n          the first time, holiday illumination on Buckingham Palace. In a subtle<br \/>\n          demonstration of good taste mixed with saavy business sense, the Union<br \/>\n          Jack motif appearantly alternates with an advertisment for a local<br \/>\n          cell phone company.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_849622.html\">from Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Projectors will &quot;wrap&quot; the Palace in a giant Union Jack and<br \/>\n        also in Christmas wrapping paper.<\/p>\n<p>        It is part of the &quot;Brightening Up London&quot; project, backed by<br \/>\n        celebrities including Bob Geldof, and sponsored by Orange.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;The Queen was impressed by Bob Geldof&#8217;s &#8216;Peace and Hope&#8217; message<br \/>\n        projected on to Wellington Arch and gave the go-ahead for the Palace<br \/>\n        to be lit<br \/>\n        up,&quot; said a Palace spokeswoman.&quot;But this is not an endorsement<br \/>\n        of any particular phone company.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        Nine of London&#8217;s most famous buildings &#8211; including the National Gallery,<br \/>\n          Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain and the National Theatre &#8211; are being<br \/>\n          illuminated with seasonal images.<\/p>\n<p>      The Palace will be lit up from 5pm on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With typical low-key British aplomb, the Queen has consented to allow, for the first time, holiday illumination on Buckingham Palace. In a subtle demonstration of good taste mixed with saavy business sense, the Union Jack motif appearantly alternates with an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/24\/buckingham-palace-lit-like-billboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}