{"id":1314,"date":"2011-12-30T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2011-12-30T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:09:58","slug":"xmas-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, instead of spending Boxing day morning happily sleeping off the gastric over-indulgences of the day (and night) before, I found myself 130 miles from home, filming obscure yuletide customs in the suburbs of Sheffield. Sword dancing and local folk carols &#8211; which we expected to see &#8211; and then THIS&#8230;  which we didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYbe9Egf6Ek?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Derby Tup&#8221;<\/strong> is a (short) mumming play set to a traditional folk song of the same name. To be honest, it doesn&#8217;t have much of a plot&#8230; but the play dates back to the late 1800s, and was apparently performed by local children near Christmas (seems like a lot more fun than going door to door Carol singing!). Nowadays, it&#8217;s not a particularly common thing to see (most mummers perform the familiar St George material), so I&#8217;m really glad we chanced upon it &#8212; I love seeing mad things like this perpetuated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, instead of spending Boxing day morning happily sleeping off the gastric over-indulgences of the day (and night) before, I found myself 130 miles from home, filming obscure yuletide customs in the suburbs of Sheffield. Sword dancing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-calendar-customs","category-travels","tumblog-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}