{"id":2219,"date":"2012-09-20T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemy1977.wordpress.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:17:22","slug":"sophie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/09\/sophie\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/blackroses20-20400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1112\" style=\"width:309px;\" title=\"BlackRoses%20-%20400x400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/blackroses20-20400x400.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Sophie Lancaster &#8211; the 20-year old British goth who was killed in because of the way she dressed. Her murder continues to have an impact on the alternative scene with her mother Sylvia launching the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and giving talks to raise awareness of image-based prejudice. There\u2019s even a stage named after Sophie at the annual Bloodstock Open Air Festival in Derbyshire.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage was so moved by Sophie\u2019s death that he teamed up with Sylvia Lancaster to create a radio performance called \u2018Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster\u2019, which was based on his poetry collection of the same name. The performance has just been adapted for stage and is now running at Manchester\u2019s Royal Exchange Theatre until 29 September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/black_roses_advert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1116\" style=\"width:222px;\" title=\"black_roses_advert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/black_roses_advert.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>The Sophie Lancaster Foundation was\u00a0created as a lasting legacy to Sophie, fighting for the respect and understanding of subcultures in our communities, campaigning to have the UK Hate Crime legislation extended to include people from \u201calternative subcultures\u201d or \u201cLifestyle and Dress\u201d If you have not already please visit and like <a title=\"The Sophie Lancaster Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesophielancasterfoundation\">The\u00a0Sophie Lancaster Foundation<\/a> Facebook page and show your support for the fantastic work of the foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.sophielancasterfoundation.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sophielancasterfoundation.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sophielancasterfoundation.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Sophie Lancaster &#8211; the 20-year old British goth who was killed in because of the way she dressed. Her murder continues to have an impact on the alternative scene with her mother Sylvia launching the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and giving talks to raise awareness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238,239,240],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-roses","tag-royal-exchange-theatre","tag-sophie-lancaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}