{"id":11488,"date":"2013-11-05T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2013-11-05T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:01:43","slug":"but-first-a-protest-march-through-the-streets-of-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/05\/but-first-a-protest-march-through-the-streets-of-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"But first &#8230; a protest march through the streets of Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before continuing with any World Fantasy Convention impressions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While wandering over the weekend from the University of Brighton (where I took in <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.brighton.ac.uk\/whats-on\/gallery-theatre\/gallery-events\/gallery-exhibitions-2013\/october13\/jan-vankmajer-the-inner-life-of-objects\">the Jan \u0160vankmajer exhibit<\/a>) to a Pizza Hut (where I hoped to track down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/10315866\/Pizza-Hut-panned-for-near-3000-calorie-cheeseburger-pizza.html\">the infamous cheeseburger crust pizza<\/a>), I heard the beating of drums. I turned toward the sound,  and when I saw police motorcycles approaching along Stanford Avenue,  pulled out my Flip camera.<\/p>\n<p>What was up? A protest march in support of the National Health Service. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sozJH4iBWk8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On a weekend during which a friend visiting the UK had been hospitalized and apparently received good care, I felt supportive of the NHS, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before continuing with any World Fantasy Convention impressions &#8230; While wandering over the weekend from the University of Brighton (where I took in the Jan \u0160vankmajer exhibit) to a Pizza Hut (where I hoped to track down the infamous cheeseburger crust pizza), I heard the beating of drums. I turned toward the sound, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brighton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11497,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}