{"id":2272,"date":"2010-09-08T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2010-09-07T22:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:39:46","slug":"covent-garden-photos-market-and-curious-street-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/covent-garden-photos-market-and-curious-street-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Covent Garden photos: market views and curious street artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/covent-garden-performers-05.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photos of Covent Garden market and street performers and buskers, Covent Garden, London WC2, London\" width=\"580\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Covent Garden is a ruddy weird place to be on on a busy Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>To get to the market, you have to pass rows of bizarrely painted &#8216;human statues&#8217; who stand there motionless for the\u00a0 greater part of the day, pausing only to enact a brief set of moves whenever someone is entertained enough to drop a few coins their way.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/covent-garden-performers-08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photos of Covent Garden market and street performers and buskers, Covent Garden, London WC2, London\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one was a little too creepy for my tastes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/covent-garden-performers-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photos of Covent Garden market and street performers and buskers, Covent Garden, London WC2, London\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/covent-garden-performers-15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photos of Covent Garden market and street performers and buskers, Covent Garden, London WC2, London\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/covent-garden-performers-london.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Covent Garden photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covent Garden is a ruddy weird place to be on on a busy Saturday afternoon. To get to the market, you have to pass rows of bizarrely painted &#8216;human statues&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-covent-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/covent-garden-performers-05.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-AE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}