{"id":16715,"date":"2015-11-03T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=16715"},"modified":"2015-11-03T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:48:24","slug":"when-the-flags-fly-in-cardiff-street-scenes-from-the-rugby-world-cup-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/when-the-flags-fly-in-cardiff-street-scenes-from-the-rugby-world-cup-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"When the flags fly in Cardiff &#8211; street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-01.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever there&#8217;s a big game on in the Welsh capital, a veritable army of street vendors swiftly wheel\u00a0out their sports-branded merchandise in a burst of full-on opportunistic entrepreneurship that would make Alan Sugar proud.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-02.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judging by the amount of street traders around\u00a0Cardiff, there must be a near insatiable demand for flags, novelty hats, scarves and bizarre headgear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-03.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On every corner can be found wheeled wagons overflowing with flags and mementos.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a series of photos taken around the streets during the recent Rugby World Cup 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-04.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-05.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-06.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-07.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-08.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-09.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-10.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-11.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-12.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-13.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-14.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-15.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-16.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-17.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rugby-flags-cardiff-18.jpg\" alt=\"When the flags fly in Cardiff - street scenes from the Rugby World Cup 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/category\/wales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wales photo features here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/wales\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever there&#8217;s a big game on in the Welsh capital, a veritable army of street vendors swiftly wheel\u00a0out their sports-branded merchandise in a burst of full-on opportunistic entrepreneurship that would &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,17,193,198,16],"tags":[1196,98,1292,165,1194],"class_list":["post-16715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff","category-photos","category-places","category-wales-places","category-wales","tag-cardiff","tag-flags","tag-merchandise","tag-rugby","tag-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rugby-flags-cardiff-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16720,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions\/16720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}