{"id":849,"date":"2013-05-05T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-05-05T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:06:08","slug":"garden-as-eschatology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/05\/05\/garden-as-eschatology\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden as eschatology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on the possible beliefs implicit in the garden at Biddulph Grange [dead link removed, not re-findable], from Paul Baker of the Garden History Society&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept of a link between the Millenarian belief of the imminent second coming [of Christ] and the layout of the garden at Biddulph has been the subject of some literary discussion. [&#8230;] Brent Elliott in his book Victorian Gardens writes \u2018&#8230; the garden at Biddulph Grange, by evoking vanished and alien civilizations, served as an affirmation that the millennium was coming.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Peter Hayden&#8217;s <em>Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire: A Victorian Garden Rediscovered<\/em> (1989) is more cautious&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While religion was an important factor throughout Bateman&#8217;s life, it is difficult to gauge to what extent the garden was created as an expression of faith&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on the possible beliefs implicit in the garden at Biddulph Grange [dead link removed, not re-findable], from Paul Baker of the Garden History Society&#8230; The concept of a link between the Millenarian belief of the imminent second coming [of Christ] and the layout of the garden at Biddulph has been the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}