{"id":1412,"date":"2012-01-08T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:58:24","slug":"haxey-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Haxey Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first vid of the new year, showing the 700-year old tradition of &#8220;Haxey Hood&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Su4XASv-Bo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quite pleased with this one; I&#8217;ve always found these mass football games to be a bit difficult to film, since you usually can&#8217;t really see very much of anything at ground level. However, my new monopod doubles up very nicely as an overhead camera boom, and the camera&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LIyIOKahRwc\">motion-sensitive optics<\/a> seem to do an excellent job of cancelling out any wobble from abusing it this way&#8230; Hence, lots of high level shots when the main action kicks off from 2:55 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Had to render the final movie twice, after I noticed I&#8217;d titled it &#8220;2011&#8221; instead of &#8220;2012&#8221;&#8230; oops! I still can&#8217;t quite get over just how futuristic the number &#8220;2012&#8221; looks. We&#8217;re <strong>definitely <\/strong>living in the future now.<\/p>\n<p>The event was surprisingly well attended, as these things go&#8230; especially considering it was on a work\/school day. There was a pro film crew present, seemingly recording something british-customs related presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unthanks\">Unthanks<\/a>&#8230; we managed to lurk conspicuously in the background during an interview or two \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first vid of the new year, showing the 700-year old tradition of &#8220;Haxey Hood&#8221;&#8230; Quite pleased with this one; I&#8217;ve always found these mass football games to be a bit difficult to film, since you usually can&#8217;t really see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1412\">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-1412","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\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}