{"id":4246,"date":"2011-05-07T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2014-07-31T00:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:51:34","slug":"really-free-school-booted-out-of-the-hand-and-racquet-whitcomb-st-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/really-free-school-booted-out-of-the-hand-and-racquet-whitcomb-st-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Free School booted out of the Hand and Racquet, Whitcomb St, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hand-and-racquet-pub-squat-01.jpg\" alt=\"Really Free School at the Hand and Racquet, 48 Whitcomb Street, London, WC2H 7HA evicted\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The building had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/hand-and-racquet-pub-london-wc2.html\" target=\"_blank\">lain empty for years<\/a> on end, so I was pleased when the <a href=\"http:\/\/londonfreeschool.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Really Free School<\/a> squatted this old central London pub and put it to productive use.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hand-and-racquet-pub-squat-02.jpg\" alt=\"Really Free School at the Hand and Racquet, 48 Whitcomb Street, London, WC2H 7HA evicted\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it was squatted, the space was used for film\u00a0screenings, workshops,\u00a0discussions, lessons, skill shares and debates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hand-and-racquet-pub-squat-03.jpg\" alt=\"Really Free School at the Hand and Racquet, 48 Whitcomb Street, London, WC2H 7HA evicted\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above is the eviction\u00a0notice\u00a0served on the Really Free School last month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/hand-and-racquet-pub-squat-04.jpg\" alt=\"Really Free School at the Hand and Racquet, 48 Whitcomb Street, London, WC2H 7HA evicted\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once again, the pub remains empty and a wasted resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building had lain empty for years on end, so I was pleased when the Really Free School squatted this old central London pub and put it to productive use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[10,36,84],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-london","tag-pubs","tag-squats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hand-and-racquet-pub-squat-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-16u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15109,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/15109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}