{"id":33509,"date":"2013-10-31T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7565ff1c5634b264f905e2212ec6191d"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:11:00","slug":"news-story-treasure-finds-at-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33509","title":{"rendered":"News story: Treasure finds at all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/statistical-release-for-reported-treasure-finds-2011-and-2012\">detailed break-down<\/a> of the equivalent figures for 2011, also published today, reveals that in that year a massive 92 per cent of all treasure finds were by people with metal detectors.  <\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the figures, Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">There\u2019s something essentially mysterious and exciting about buried treasure, and I\u2019m delighted that each year reveals still more finds. These items help us get a fuller picture of how life was lived centuries ago, and add enormously to our rich and varied cultural heritage. I also salute all the responsible metal detectorists \u2013 true heritage heroes &#8211; whose patience and unceasing curiosity do so much to bring this treasure to light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New headline figures, published today, show that last year (2012) saw 998 finds of treasure reported in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the highest number since statistics were first published 5 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33519,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions\/33519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}