{"id":4213,"date":"2011-05-02T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:38:59","slug":"the-oddest-anti-royal-wedding-protest-of-the-lot-oxford-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-oddest-anti-royal-wedding-protest-of-the-lot-oxford-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The oddest anti-royal wedding protest of the lot, Oxford Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/anti-royal-wedding-protest-03.jpg\" alt=\"The oddest anti-royal wedding protest of the lot, Oxford Street\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were all sorts of protests and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/screw-the-wedding-lets-party-free-brixton-clubs-tonightfri\/\">expressions of disinterest<\/a> towards last weekend&#8217;s Royal Wedding, but this one-woman campaign seen on Oxford Street had to be the strangest.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/anti-royal-wedding-protest-01.jpg\" alt=\"The oddest anti-royal wedding protest of the lot, Oxford Street\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotted a few days before the wedding, the lady was holding up a collection of photos of blond and brunette celebrities, with a placard asking Prince William &#8220;to put a stop&#8221; to the wedding because &#8211; apparently &#8211; &#8220;the people are demanding a natural blonde princess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/anti-royal-wedding-protest-05.jpg\" alt=\"The oddest anti-royal wedding protest of the lot, Oxford Street\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to say that her argument was a little, shall we say,<em> hard to follow<\/em>, but it seemed that the lady was\u00a0against\u00a0William marrying Kate Middleton because it\u00a0would\u00a0promote the &#8220;Middle East\/Latino Brunette complexion&#8221; which is, &#8220;already predominating the entire Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her banner also explained she was worried about the &#8216;decline in the blonde population&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/anti-royal-wedding-protest-02.jpg\" alt=\"The oddest anti-royal wedding protest of the lot, Oxford Street\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were all sorts of protests and expressions of disinterest towards last weekend&#8217;s Royal Wedding, but this one-woman campaign seen on Oxford Street had to be the strangest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7054,"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":[10,19],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-london","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anti-royal-wedding-protest-03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-15X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}