{"id":2863,"date":"2022-04-28T02:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T01:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=2863"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:24:12","slug":"in-penns-shadow-1680-1720-philadelphia-the-great-experiment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/in-penns-shadow-1680-1720-philadelphia-the-great-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"In Penn&#8217;s Shadow (1680-1720) &#8211; Philadelphia: The Great Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-31iitsBAh0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Philadelphia celebrates its founder more than any other American city, but who exactly is William Penn? For many, he is a statue atop City Hall, but Penn&#8217;s busy life reflected an era of chaotic upheaval and conflict. He is at once a radical Quaker, political prisoner, visionary city planner, absent landlord, and a slaveholder. His ideals, contradictions, and ambitions cast a long shadow across American history. This installment of Philadelphia: The Great Experiment explores what it means to live In Penn&#8217;s Shadow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>History Making Productions<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>More articles in this month&#8217;s newsletter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/reflections-during-a-zoom-meeting-3rd-april\/\">Reflections during a zoom meeting  3 April<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/meeting-for-worship-24-april\/\">Meeting for Worship 24 April<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/the-politics-of-place-and-some-local-witnessing\/\">The politics of place \u2013 and some local witnessing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/monthly-appeal-may-2022\/\">Monthly Appeal May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/friendly-persuasion\/\">&#8216;Friendly Persuasion&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/mutual-support-group-getting-older\/\">Mutual Support Group &#8211; &#8216;Getting Older&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/four-delusions-and-a-plea\/\">Four Delusions and a Plea<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/from-the-gardening-team\/\">Note From the Gardening Team<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/youth-children-and-families-development-worker\/\">Britain Yearly Meeting is Seeking a Youth, Children, and Families Development Worker<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/waiting\/\">Waiting<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/living-in-the-spirit-with-friends-from-other-meetings\/\">Living in the Spirit<\/a><\/li><li class=\"current\">In Penn&#8217;s Shadow (1680-1720) &#8211; Philadelphia: The Great Experiment<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/addressing-environmental-issues-as-a-spiritual-community\/\">Addressing Environmental Issues as a Spiritual Community<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/the-quakers-the-whites-that-helped-the-slavery-abolishment\/\">The Quakers: The Whites that helped the slavery abolishment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/community-noticeboard-online-may-2022\/\">Community Noticeboard Online, May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/from-quaker-faith-and-practice-24-21\/\">From Quaker Faith and Practice 24.21<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/meetings-for-worship-may-2022\/\">Meetings for Worship May 2022<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">Back to May 2022 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 517 \u2022 May 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright 2022, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia celebrates its founder more than any other American city, but who exactly is William Penn? For many, he is a statue atop City Hall, but Penn&#8217;s busy life reflected an era of chaotic upheaval and conflict. He is at once a radical Quaker, political prisoner, visionary city planner, absent landlord, and a slaveholder. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/in-penns-shadow-1680-1720-philadelphia-the-great-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Penn&#8217;s Shadow (1680-1720) &#8211; Philadelphia: The Great Experiment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":2847,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-2022-05-may","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2863\/revisions\/4285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}