{"id":17414,"date":"2016-11-16T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17414"},"modified":"2016-11-16T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:36:15","slug":"the-not-so-brilliant-burning-hat-flipping-busker-of-edinburgh-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-not-so-brilliant-burning-hat-flipping-busker-of-edinburgh-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The not-so-brilliant burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh &#8211; in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-01.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big on enthusiasm but perhaps a little wanting in the skill and entertainment departments, this tenacious street busker was seen in action in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-07.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Setting up close to the tourist-luring castle in Edinburgh, this guy&#8217;s act involved him setting fire to the top of his hat and then flipping it up on to his head with his foot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-02.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite him loudly announcing his upcoming performance, only a small crowd gathered in the street to watch the flaming hat spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-03.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the hat just about ablaze, the busker prepares for the big moment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-04.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the hat is airborne!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the act had some shortcomings.\u00a0First off, the flames would constantly die out as soon as the hat\u00a0was kicked into the air, which made the big flaming moment rather disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>The other major problem was that he&#8217;d often fail to land the hat on his head, so baffled onlookers would essentially be watching a man kick a hat about in the street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-06.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Undeterred by\u00a0the\u00a0underwhelming crowd response, the determined busker started a new act which involved a straitjacket.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-05.jpg\" alt=\"The burning hat flipping busker of Edinburgh - in photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have chance to witness his escapologist skills but we wish him all the best. You\u00a0can only\u00a0admire this level of dedication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/edinburgh-things-to-do-and-see-great-pubs-and-more.311253\/\" target=\"_blank\">Join in with the chat about Edinburgh on the forums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big on enthusiasm but perhaps a little wanting in the skill and entertainment departments, this tenacious street busker was seen in action in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17416,"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":[456,17,193],"tags":[477,1515,1195,186,1516],"class_list":["post-17414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-busker","tag-edinburgh","tag-photos","tag-scotland","tag-street"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/burning-hat-busker-edinburgh-01-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4wS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414","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=17414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17418,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions\/17418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}