{"id":7373,"date":"2016-11-05T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2016-11-05T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T12:00:13","slug":"bonfire-night-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7373","title":{"rendered":"Bonfire Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, remember the fifth of November<br \/>\nGunpowder, treason and plot&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The rhyme continues with a variety of endings, but the first two lines are the ones with most impact. Why should we\u00a0remember the fifth of November? Because of the\u00a0Gunpowder, treason and plot of course.<\/p>\n<p>I was speaking to a Dutch friend the other day who was surprised by some of the things the British celebrate. Why would you celebrate a failed attempt to blow up parliament? She asked. I think she meant why celebrate a failure rather than why celebrate the continuation of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a celebration goes all the way back to the reign of King James. Yes, the same King James that the Gunpowder Plot was aiming to kill.<\/p>\n<p>In 1605 Guy Fawkes was part of a group that attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament by placing barrels of gunpowder in the basement. The group was not led by Fawkes, but by a man called Robert Catesby. Guy Fawkes was the man given the job of safeguarding the barrels of gunpowder and lighting the fuse. However, on the morning of 5<sup>th<\/sup> November, soldiers discovered Guy and arrested him before he could carry out the plan.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of his survival, King James ordered that the people of England should have a great bonfire on the night on 5<sup>th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n<p>So the celebration of\u00a0bonfire night is not a celebration of failure, nor a celebration of parliament. It&#8217;s a celebration for the life of the monarch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy bonfire night, by Royal command.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7404\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920.jpg\" alt=\"girl-569369_1920\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/girl-569369_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy bonfire night, by Royal command. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7373\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bonfire Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,521,541],"tags":[560,1261,1262,563,564],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-calendar-events-misc","category-history","tag-bonfire-night","tag-fifth-of-november","tag-gunpowder-plot","tag-guy-fawkes","tag-king-james"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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