{"id":10681,"date":"2025-09-18T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:51:13","slug":"london-has-the-monument-to-remember-the-fire-that-destroyed-the-city-but-failed-to-learn-lessons-from-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/london-has-the-monument-to-remember-the-fire-that-destroyed-the-city-but-failed-to-learn-lessons-from-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"London has The Monument to remember the fire that destroyed the city, but failed to learn lessons from what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In London in 1666, fire broke somewhere in Pudding Lane, with the blaze raging for days to \u2013 basically \u2013 gut the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, though eventually extending past the wall to the west of London, and then swallowing almost the entire city.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@outragemag\/video\/7551315421694053640\" data-video-id=\"7551315421694053640\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@outragemag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@outragemag?refer=embed\">@outragemag<\/a> Heard of <a title=\"greatfireoflondon\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/greatfireoflondon?refer=embed\">#GreatFireOfLondon<\/a> before? <a title=\"london\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/london?refer=embed\">#London<\/a> has <a title=\"themonument\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/themonument?refer=embed\">#TheMonument<\/a> for that even if anti-minority (including <a title=\"lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/lgbt?refer=embed\">#LGBT<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound  - Outrage Magazine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Outrage-Magazine-7551315473960012552?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound  &#8211; Outrage Magazine<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll, or <em>yung dami ng namatay<\/em>, is still contested even now. But some things are generally accepted as true, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How the fire started in the bakeshop of the king\u2019s baker, Thomas Farriner. So \u00a0he is now eternally blamed for the fire, <em>kahit<\/em> <em>na baka naman<\/em> <em>nakatulog lang siya dahil sa pagod sa trabaho<\/em>. His boss <em>nga eh<\/em>, the king, did not know a single day of work because his position of power and wealth that came with it were inherited.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The mayor at that time, Thomas Bloodworth, actually hesitated to make moves to stop the fire, though this is something we already expect from our politicians who \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 still manage to get elected anyway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There was blaming of the \u201cothers\u201d, including immigrants, homeless people, and so on for causing the fire; this blaming of non-Whites is still common in the UK even now, even if the real abusers are those in positions of power as they make us fight among each other while they live in abundance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, to commemorate what they now call as the Great Fire of London, and to mark <em>na rin<\/em> the rebuilding that followed, they established the Monument to the Great Fire of London. Also called as The Monument, it\u2019s at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed by Robert Hooke, and completed in 1677, The Monument is a column built of Portland stone, with a gilded urn of fire topping it. 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Our politicians don\u2019t care, too, focusing <em>sa pagpapayaman <\/em>through<em> nakaw<\/em>. But we don\u2019t have markers; instead, we just have ruined lives. So <em>yung<\/em> lessons all the way from 1666, all the way from London, <em>walang nakakarinig<\/em>, as we all just look at the monuments and not their lessons\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But off we go for more #LGBTQIA+ <em>rampa<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The Monument is located at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill in the City of London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know of the #GreatFireOfLondon? #London has a monument for that but some anti-minority (including #LGBT) lessons are not learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[2222,2525,110,1742],"class_list":["post-10681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-travel","tag-london","tag-the-monument","tag-travel-2","tag-travel-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}