{"id":967,"date":"2011-11-13T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:43:24","slug":"carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we went to the West Country, in pursuit of more material for <a href=\"http:\/\/calendarcustoms.com\/\">Averil&#8217;s website<\/a>. Bridgwater Carnival came as a bit of a surprise&#8230; I know that Carnival parades are big on the continent, but I&#8217;ve never seen a float-based parade on <strong>this<\/strong> kind of scale anywhere in the UK before. Some of the entries were jaw-droppingly impressive (The tableux\/human-statue <em>&#8220;Overthrow of The Tzar&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; around 6:20 in the vid &#8211; being a particular work of art; Youtube doesn&#8217;t even start do it justice compared to real life). Makes me wish we had Carnival clubs in this part of the country&#8230; building those things looks fun!<\/p>\n<p>The video is just a few of the highlights (i.e: bits where people didn&#8217;t get in the way of my camera) &#8211; the full parade took about two and a half hours to pass by where we were standing. No wonder all the locals brought chairs with them.<\/p>\n<p>The next day we went to check out the tar barrel rolling at Ottery St Mary&#8230; which is a much more olde-worlde \/ insanely-dangerous \/ fire-based tradition. The footage from that is my next editing project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we went to the West Country, in pursuit of more material for Averil&#8217;s website. Bridgwater Carnival came as a bit of a surprise&#8230; I know that Carnival parades are big on the continent, but I&#8217;ve never seen a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=967\">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":[46,49,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-customs","category-travels","category-video","tumblog-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}