During the protest, slogans were painted on the wall of the Grade II-listed building and on the pavement in front of the steps.<\/p>\n
Dating from the 1930s, it originally housed the UK government’s Welsh Board of Health.<\/p>\n
After the position of secretary of state for Wales was created in the 1960s, it became home to the Welsh Office.<\/p>\n
Then In 1999, it became part of the office complex used by Wales’ fledgling devolved government.<\/p>\n
Campaigning for and promoting the Welsh language was a feature in ap Iorwerth’s formative years.<\/p>\n
His father Edward Morus was a teacher, prominent singer and composer, as well as being an active campaigner for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh language and Welsh culture. <\/p>\n
Ap Iorwerth literally means son of Iorwerth – Iorwerth being a Welsh form of Edward.<\/p>\n
The first minister’s mother was also a teacher and went on to become president of several organisations promoting the Welsh language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the protest, slogans were painted on the wall of the Grade II-listed building and on the pavement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}