{"id":505,"date":"2006-05-07T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/saturday-photos-elephant-boyfriends\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T20:08:00","slug":"saturday-photos-elephant-boyfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/saturday-photos-elephant-boyfriends\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Photos: Elephant, Boyfriends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another large mechanical elephant. <\/p>\n<p>On many Saturdays, the streets of Central London host some protest or other. Recently, there was a protest against some Danish cartoons. A few weeks later there was a Free Speech protest, to protest against the other protest. I heard there were also a few counter-protesters at the Free Speech protest. So that&#8217;s a protest against a protest against a protest. And so on. Everyone&#8217;s annoyed nowadays. <\/p>\n<p>So this week, I suppose you could call The Sultan&#8217;s Elephant a protest against the lack of giant mechanical elephants and towering puppets of little girls on the streets. Quite right too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/nelly1.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"633\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/nelly4.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"633\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/nelly6.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/nelly7.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"633\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then to Islington for an acoustic set by The Boyfriends. It takes at least twenty French street theatre performers to work one Martin Wallace. You can&#8217;t see the strings, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/boyf1.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another large mechanical elephant. On many Saturdays, the streets of Central London host some protest or other. Recently, there was a protest against some Danish cartoons. A few weeks later there was a Free Speech protest, to protest against the other protest. I heard there were also a few counter-protesters at the Free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}