{"id":1543,"date":"2025-03-16T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:59:24","slug":"update-on-the-london-covid-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Update on the London COVID wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about Dave Winer led me back to <a href=\"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1479\">this post<\/a> about the London COVID memorial wall.\u00a0 Turns out this was a grass-roots action.\u00a0 I was back in London over Christmas, picked up a book by a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Led_By_Donkeys\">Led By Donkeys<\/a> (!) and turned to a random page, and the chapter was describing the process they went through to make that wall.\u00a0 They spent a bunch of time figuring out what and where (opposite Parliament, so they couldn&#39;t ignore it), and then how to do it stealthily in such a way that it wouldn&#39;t be shut down by the authorities over the weeks that it&#39;d take to complete.<\/p>\n<p>They donned official looking hi-viz vests and made signs in official-looking fonts saying things like &quot;National COVID Memorial Wall&quot; that they glued on the wall prior to starting, and men-at-work hoardings that they put all over that section of the walkway.\u00a0 The cops didn&#39;t pay them any mind until they were already well into it, and the media had started to cover it.\u00a0 Eventually, leading from behind, politicians used it as a backdrop for press conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about Dave Winer led me back to this post about the London COVID memorial wall.\u00a0 Turns out this was a grass-roots action.\u00a0 I was back in London over Christmas, picked up a book by a group called Led By Donkeys (!) and turned to a random page, and the chapter was describing the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}