{"id":14845,"date":"2016-06-14T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=14845"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:07:25","slug":"library-of-birmingham-lights-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/14\/library-of-birmingham-lights-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Birmingham Lights Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lighting up took place as the sun set and was followed by a vigil in Hurst Street, at the heart of Birmingham\u2019s Gay Quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 50 people were killed and another 53 were enjured after a heavily-armed gunman released fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The rainbow flag is a symbol for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community).<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Birmingham has previously lit up in light of the Brussels and Paris attacks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14846\" style=\"width: 962px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14846 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims.jpg\" alt=\"Library of Birmingham pays tribute to the Paris attack victims\" width=\"962\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims.jpg 962w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Library-of-Birmingham-pays-tribute-to-the-Paris-attack-victims-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Library of Birmingham pays tribute to the Paris attack victims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lighting up took place as the sun set and was followed by a vigil in Hurst Street, at the heart of Birmingham\u2019s Gay Quarter. Almost 50 people were killed and another 53 were enjured after a heavily-armed gunman released fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The rainbow flag is a symbol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}