{"id":6989,"date":"2019-05-27T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2019-05-27T07:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T06:03:21","slug":"the-show-goes-ever-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/05\/27\/the-show-goes-ever-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The show goes ever on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the &#8216;Tolkien in Staffordshire&#8217; touring exhibition had finished touring.  But the <em>Express &amp; Star<\/em> today brings news, URL-dated as 27th May 2019, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/2019\/05\/27\/jrr-tolkien-drew-early-inspiration-for-writing-in-staffordshire\/\">it&#8217;s just opened at Cannock Chase Visitor Centre<\/a>.  They&#8217;re not very clear on specifics though, and offer no finish-date. <\/p>\n<p>Initially I wondered if this report was actually a press-release re-writer bot, erroneously re-writing a press-release from 2018?  The website at staffordshiregreatwar.com has died and the Staffordshire Council events pages are giving me 404s, so no luck there in terms of discovering more.<\/p>\n<p>But a recent press report on the biopic movie, in the neighbouring <em>Shropshire Star<\/em>, mentions the exhibitions and gives an inkling as to the current situation for the show&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Part of that new exhibition has now found a new home at the Great War Hut at the Marquis Drive Visitor Centre [on Cannock Chase] where people will be able to visit every weekend, and Bank Holidays&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that that&#8217;s it, and that it&#8217;s now opened as a cut-down permanent exhibit, perhaps with the information boards in leaflet form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the &#8216;Tolkien in Staffordshire&#8217; touring exhibition had finished touring. But the Express &amp; Star today brings news, URL-dated as 27th May 2019, that it&#8217;s just opened at Cannock Chase Visitor Centre. They&#8217;re not very clear on specifics though, and offer no finish-date. Initially I wondered if this report was actually a press-release re-writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}