{"id":4266,"date":"2011-05-10T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2011-05-10T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T00:37:09","slug":"st-pancras-brown-bowler-hatted-football-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/st-pancras-brown-bowler-hatted-football-stand-off\/","title":{"rendered":"St Pancras: brown bowler hatted football stand off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/st-pancras-football.jpg\" alt=\"St Pancras: man in a brown hat says no to football\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These kids were enjoying a kick about on the newly restored space outside St Pancras station, when this fella in the natty brown bowler told them to <em>shove orf<\/em> and take their ball with them. Here&#8217;s the back story:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/st-pancras-football-2.jpg\" alt=\"St Pancras: man in a brown hat says no to football\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown Bowler Hat spies a kick about\u00a0taking\u00a0place and strides\u00a0determinedly\u00a0towards the action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/st-pancras-football-1.jpg\" alt=\"St Pancras: man in a brown hat says no to football\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown Bowler Hat asks them to stop immediately.\u00a0Unhappy with the\u00a0request, the kids&#8217; father decides to argue the toss asking &#8211; not unreasonably &#8211; what harm they were doing.<\/p>\n<p>A stand off follows, but Mr Brown Bowler Hat was not in the mood to compromise, and moments later the football gang\u00a0reluctantly\u00a0cleared off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/st-pancras-football-3.jpg\" alt=\"St Pancras: man in a brown hat says no to football\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His sport-crushing work done, Mr Brown Bowler Hat heads back from whence he came.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/st_pancras.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photo features on St Pancras station and the Midland Hotel<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These kids were enjoying a kick about on the newly restored space outside St Pancras station, when this fella in the natty brown bowler told them to shove orf and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7065,"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":[194,17,193,90],"tags":[10,388],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-london","tag-st-pancras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/st-pancras-football.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-16O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","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=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}