{"id":7531,"date":"2026-04-02T17:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:24:27","slug":"the-roots-of-jack-in-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=7531","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Jack-in-the-Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreihbv7teh5et45mgvmaqkph3k2xgww6t44cy7y6m6qw5rzh56wfuiq.webp 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m in the <a href=\"https:\/\/helleborezine.com\/products\/the-green-issue\">latest issue of Hellebore<\/a>, talking about Victorian chimneysweeps taking to the streets on May Day. This was an emotional one for me &#8211; it turns out that the last boy to die up a chimney in England is buried in an unmarked grave right outside my old uni halls of residence. I&#8217;d unwittingly looked out over him every morning. Poor little George Brewster. I hope this article goes a little way towards giving him back his dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the latest issue of Hellebore, talking about Victorian chimneysweeps taking to the streets on May Day. This was an emotional one for me &#8211; it turns out that the last boy to die up a chimney in England &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=7531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}