{"id":5431,"date":"2026-05-23T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:53:33","slug":"5431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"Knife Angel Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-10.40.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-10.40.05.png 619w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-10.40.05-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>On my visit to Ely Cathedral I stopped and stood in awe of this statue. The impressive Knife Angel, created by Alfie Bradley, \u00a0as par of the work at <a title=\"British Ironworks Centre &amp; Shropshire Sculpture Park\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Ironworks_Centre_%26_Shropshire_Sculpture_Park\">British Ironworks Centre<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"Oswestry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oswestry\">Oswestry<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shropshire\">Shropshire<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-first-paragraph\">Cambridgeshire is set to host a 27-foot-tall monument created to raise awareness of knife crime and its devastating impact on individuals, families and communities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"po-inline-articlewall-partialarticle-closable\">It has been crafted from more than 100,000 knives and blades confiscated by police forces across the UK and serves as a powerful symbol of the human cost of knife crime and violence.<\/div>\n<div id=\"po-inline-articlegate-partialarticle\">\n<div id=\"subscription-content\">\n<p>The nationally recognised Knife Angel will be at Palace Green, in Ely, opposite Ely Cathedral, from May 20 to June 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article-first-paragraph\">Cambridgeshire is\u00a0 host a 27-foot-tall monument created to raise awareness of knife crime and its devastating impact on individuals, families and communities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"po-inline-articlewall-partialarticle-closable\">The nationally recognised Knife Angel will be at Palace Green, in Ely, opposite Ely Cathedral, from May 20 to June 17.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my visit to Ely Cathedral I stopped and stood in awe of this statue. The impressive Knife Angel, created by Alfie Bradley, \u00a0as par of the work at British Ironworks Centre\u00a0in\u00a0Oswestry,\u00a0Shropshire,\u00a0 Cambridgeshire is set to host a 27-foot-tall monument created to raise awareness of knife crime and its devastating impact on individuals, families and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}