{"id":325787,"date":"2017-09-13T03:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chesterfield-floral-tribute-to-princess-diana-freaks-out-internet-photos\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T03:43:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T02:43:33","slug":"chesterfield-floral-tribute-to-princess-diana-freaks-out-internet-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chesterfield-floral-tribute-to-princess-diana-freaks-out-internet-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesterfield floral tribute to Princess Diana freaks out internet (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2017.09\/thumbnail\/59b84b67fc7e93c94a8b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 13 Sep, 2017 01:09 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        A British town\u2019s attempt to commemorate Princess Diana with a floral arrangement has backfired in spectacular fashion, with online critics reacting in horror to the late royal\u2019s flower portrayal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Twenty years on from the princess\u2019 death in a car accident, Chesterfield Borough Council made the popular royal figure a feature of this year\u2019s annual <em>\u201cwell-dressing\u201d<\/em> near the Town Pump.<\/p>\n<p>While the gesture was obviously well-meaning, the town\u2019s ability to craft Princess Diana\u2019s face from flowers has been called into question.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChesterfieldBoroughCouncil\/photos\/pcb.1576463475750669\/1576463139084036\/?type=3&amp;theater\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scores of people took to social media to pass scorn on the Princess of Wales design.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is bound to go viral\/make national news. Putting Chesterfield on the map. It\u2019s horrific,\u201d<\/em> one commenter said on the local council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChesterfieldBoroughCouncil\/posts\/1576463475750669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook <\/a>page.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/401529-princess-diana-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why did Princess Diana&#8217;s car crash? 20yrs after her death, conspiracy theories abound<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reaction on Twitter hasn\u2019t been much kinder, with some netizens claiming it looks like a character from a horror movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I live here and, let me tell you, I can feel its eyes on me, even now in my house.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 mr welbeck kane (@400FootGhost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/400FootGhost\/status\/907367232640036865\">September 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The floral dressing was blessed in a religious service Saturday. It is set to be on display in the town center until September 16.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2pGYt3FeJM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/403127-princess-diana-tribute-chesterfield\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 13 Sep, 2017 01:09 A British town\u2019s attempt to commemorate Princess Diana with a floral arrangement has backfired in spectacular fashion, with online critics reacting in horror to the late royal\u2019s flower portrayal. Twenty years on from the princess\u2019 death in a car accident, Chesterfield Borough Council made the popular royal figure a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-325787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}