{"id":238,"date":"2007-06-17T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/17\/looking-for-the-bones-of-richard-iii\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:53:00","slug":"looking-for-the-bones-of-richard-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/17\/looking-for-the-bones-of-richard-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the bones of Richard III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Leicester Mercury<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mystery has baffled historians for centuries &#8211; what became of the remains of Richard III?<\/p>\n<p>Folklore and many history books claim that the king&#8217;s bones were dug up and hurled into the River Soar some 50 years after his death in 1485.<\/p>\n<p>Others contend that they remain where they were laid.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists may get the chance to find out when they excavate the site of the former Greyfriars Church, in St Martins, Leicester.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2edx5g\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Leicester Mercury The mystery has baffled historians for centuries &#8211; what became of the remains of Richard III? Folklore and many history books claim that the king&#8217;s bones were dug up and hurled into the River Soar some 50 years after his death in 1485. Others contend that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/17\/looking-for-the-bones-of-richard-iii\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}