{"id":12607,"date":"2018-11-05T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2018-11-05T07:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:55:24","slug":"would-be-revolutionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=12607","title":{"rendered":"Would-be Revolutionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Today is Guy Fawkes Day – or night, as the case may be. The annual commemoration of the gun powder plot<\/em> is a strange celebration of historic hatred. Guy Fawkes and his buddies had planned to blow up the House of Lord, King James I included, with a goal of ridding England of Catholicism. Fawkes was betrayed by an anonymous tip and arrested on November 5, 1605, while guarding the explosives that the plotters had stored beneath the building.<\/p>\n

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People celebrated King James’ I survival of this attempt with bonfires; across the years repeated celebrations took on an increasingly religious, anti-Catholic bend, with effigies burnt not only of Guy Fawkes but also the Pope and these days despised political figures, not necessarily only British ones.<\/p>\n