{"id":3013,"date":"2011-05-22T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2011-05-22T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:00:20","slug":"floyd-funded-school-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/05\/floyd-funded-school-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd-funded school to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school for at-risk teens founded by <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> in the early 1970s is about to close, after losing funding from its local council.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s <strong>Schoolhouse Education<\/strong> was started with help from the band, which raised  \u00a31,000 for it at a 1972 Oxfam gig at Wembley Empire Pool.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s Lewisham site will close due to declining enrollment and budget cuts. Its Greenwich facility will remain open.<\/p>\n<p>Headteacher <strong>Lynda Smith<\/strong> told the News of the World the school &#8220;would not exist if it wasn&#8217;t for Pink Floyd.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school for at-risk teens founded by Pink Floyd in the early 1970s is about to close, after losing funding from its local council. London&#8217;s Schoolhouse Education was started with help from the band, which raised \u00a31,000 for it at a 1972 Oxfam gig at Wembley Empire Pool. The school&#8217;s Lewisham site will close due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}